acedia

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Perhaps the best term for Fran’s persistent mood is acedia, that feeling of not caring much about anything, especially one’s position in the world.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

I think acedia is still with us, but it emerged at this time when the culture needed a term to describe a specific experience.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2022

Some think that acedia faded with medieval Christian monastic life and was replaced with more recognisable terms such as boredom.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2019

Ego citare hic est, ab D.nus Thomas Doyle, olim molestie Vaticanae Legationem in Washington et maturam aestimator Ecclesiae catholicae acedia respondendo ad puer-raptu allegationes exercent.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

What in Petrarch was a tendency, became an established condition in Rousseau: the acedia reached its climax.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred