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Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).

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Used as a noun, listen here, it means: Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins). Used as a noun, listen here, it means: A type of fish.

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  • Some have raised concerns for the level of acedia they have observed in modern times.
  • I wrote my book because I suspected that although the word "acedia" is unfamiliar to most of us, its effects are widely known.
  • Their torpor and acedia threatens to be a lethal response for them.
  • Evagrius, a fourth century monastic, called it the noonday demon — acedia.
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  • ''Acedia" is a heteronym, which means you may find it with different pronunciations and different meanings.
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