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Acedia
Acedia meaning
Spiritual or mental sloth. | Apathy; a lack of care or interest; indifference. | Boredom; a melancholy leading to desperation.
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We fall into something called acedia, or spiritual laziness.
If you're reading this article because you're distracting yourself from something that needs to be done, you might be struggling with something called acedia.
In a 2015 book on the subject, Fr. Jean-Charles Nault, O.S.B., called acedia the “noonday devil”, because the temptation has a tendency to strike in the middle of the day.
Dante describes acedia as the failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul; to him it was the middle sin, the only one characterised by an absence or insufficiency of love.
Emotionally and cognitively, the evil of acedia finds expression in a lack of any feeling for the world, for the people in it, or for the self.
Gregory combined tristitia and acedia, vanagloria and superbia, and added envy. citation citation Gregory's list became the standard list of sins.
The medieval condition of acedia (acedie in English) and the Romantic Weltschmerz were similar concepts, most likely to affect the intellectual.