acedia

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And that's a recipe for its own type of acedia.

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

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noun

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

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noun

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

Example sentences

And that's a recipe for its own type of acedia.

Sure I've felt acedia too after years of working hard at a company I didn't care about with a stressful, long commute.

Calling it boredom is an understatement, sounds more like acedia.

Monks and other solitaries were worried about this problem and discussed how to deal with the demon of acedia.

If I hadn't made those dramatic changes though I very well might have messed myself up long term and developed a more extreme form of acedia.

When I was a seminarian, acedia was a word often spoken of during spiritual formation.

No suggestions, but a historical comment: the sort-of ancients described this as "acedia".

Nowadays you'd call this "bit rot".Incidentally, the Church would consider indifference or acedia the worst of sins, many pieces of spiritual literature are witness to that fact.

Right or wrong, this appears to be a scientifically framed way of arguing "the problem's in your mind"... dealing with subconscious emotional issues, etc..Reading between the lines it sounds like you're saying it's acedia, perhaps an extreme form.