English

Alternative forms

• acedia

Noun

accidie ‎(uncountable)

1. (now literary) Sloth, slothfulness, especially as inducing general listlessness and apathy. [from 13th c.]
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parson's Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:

     Aftere þe synnes of Envie I wil speke of þe synne of Accidie.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 363:

     Underneath the surface excitements the demon of accidie had her by the hair.

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• cecidia

Italian

Noun

accidie f

1. plural of accidia