Wondering how to use Acedia in a sentence? Below are 7 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as sloth or laziness.
Acedia in a sentence
Acedia meaning
- Spiritual or mental sloth.
- Apathy; a lack of care or interest; indifference.
- Boredom; a melancholy leading to desperation.
Using Acedia
- The main meaning on this page is: Spiritual or mental sloth. | Apathy; a lack of care or interest; indifference. | Boredom; a melancholy leading to desperation.
- Useful related words include: sloth, laziness, mortal sin, deadly sin.
- In the example corpus, acedia often appears in combinations such as: called acedia, of acedia.
Context around Acedia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Acedia
- In this selection, "acedia" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, describes, finds, vanagloria and acedie stand out and add context to how "acedia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include b called acedia the noonday and condition of acedia acedie in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "acedia" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with acedia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We fall into something called acedia, or spiritual laziness. (9 words)
The medieval condition of acedia (acedie in English) and the Romantic Weltschmerz were similar concepts, most likely to affect the intellectual. (21 words)
Gregory combined tristitia and acedia, vanagloria and superbia, and added envy. citation citation Gregory's list became the standard list of sins. (22 words)
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. (41 words)
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. (33 words)
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. (27 words)
Example sentences (7)
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.
Common combinations with acedia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- called acedia 3×
- of acedia 2×