acedia , auch: accidie , auch: accedie

In extreme cases we reach acedia, the hatred of life that takes one to suicide.

Lust Dante is guilty of the middle one, acedia.

Acedia is moral laziness, inertia of the soul and will.

Some scholars have said that the ultimate form of acedia was despair which leads to suicide.

Dante moves from a will frozen by acedia to an openness to the grace and love of God.

Acedia is indicated by a range of signs.

Acedia plays an important role in the literary criticism of Walter Benjamin.

He has strayed from the "right road" because of his sin, acedia, or moral laziness.

Their sixth full-length album Acedia was released in November 2009.

Acedia was originally noted as a problem among monks and other ascetics who maintained a solitary life.

Acedia depression sufferers were harshly judged and condemned.

Acedia is essentially a flight from the world that leads to not caring even that one does not care.

Diligence, the theological virtue opposite to acedia.

Acedia, incompetence and ferrocement - all the makings of a decent sea yarn.

Midway through her life, Sigrid Nunez's narrator, a writer, finds herself lost in a desert of acedia.

Acedia plain and simple."

The church calls it "acedia".

Because Dante's specific sin is acedia, he must actively pursue the right way, the way to heaven and God.

Over time, the "acedia" in Pope Gregory's order has come to be closer in meaning to sloth.

The demon of acedia holds an important place in early monastic demonology and proto-psychology.

The best-known of the psychological signs of acedia is tedium, boredom or general laziness.

On the fourth terrace we find souls whose sin was that of deficient love - that is, sloth or acedia.

Boredom and lethargy, often evident among reclusive monks, were attributed to a condition called acedia, which opened the way to the work of the Devil.

A song from the new Dark Age Album Acedia [2009].

THE concept of depression as moral weakness first appeared in fourth-century Christian writings on "acedia."