[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

acedia \acedia\ n.
   1. apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue
      personified as one of the deadly sins.

   syn: sloth, laziness
        wordnet 1.5

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

acedia
     n : apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue personified
         as one of the deadly sins syn: sloth, laziness
see also:
sloth laziness 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

118 moby thesaurus words for "acedia":
   accidia, aloofness, anger, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, avarice,
   avaritia, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, carelessness,
   casualness, cave of trophonius, cave of despair, comatoseness,
   deadly sin, despair, desperateness, desperation, despondency,
   detachment, disconsolateness, disinterest, dispassion, disregard,
   disregardfulness, drowsiness, dullness, easygoingness, enervation,
   ennui, envy, fatigue, forlornness, gluttony, greed, gula,
   heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness,
   inanimation, inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, indifference,
   indiscrimination, inexcitability, insouciance, invidia, ira,
   jadedness, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness,
   languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude,
   lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness,
   listlessness, lust, luxuria, mindlessness, negligence, no exit,
   no way, no way out, nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy, passiveness,
   passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness,
   pococurantism, pride, recklessness, regardlessness, resignation,
   resignedness, satedness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness,
   sluggishness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness,
   spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, superbia, supineness,
   torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, unanxiousness, unconcern,
   unmindfulness, unsolicitousness, weariness, withdrawnness,
   world-weariness, wrath

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