(1) Acedia is a term of the classical greek vocabulary that a christian author of the IVth century, Evagre the Pontic, uses in a special sense, to describe a mental state characterized among other things, by disgust and dejection, and which, according to him, falls into what became the first list of deadly sins.
(2) One century later, Pope Gregory the great removes acedia from the list of deadly sins, either because he does not distinguish it from sadness (and laziness) or because he considers it a morbid state and, as such, depending on medical care.
Boredom
Definition:
(n.) The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
(n.) The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) I used it primarily as a social lubricant but also to alleviate boredom, stress and loneliness.
(2) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
(3) We should stop the importation of these birds which are sold as commodities and endure lives of boredom in cages.
(4) Is boredom, then, one of the risks associated with great art?
(5) It's why he wages his own one-man war in the cinema against boredom: you can experience many things watching his films, but you will never complain of longueurs.
(6) Brando directed once - on One-Eyed Jacks (1959) - before boredom and sourness took over, but seldom had the patience, the stamina or the courage to be master of his own fate.
(7) It was concluded that ACTH 4-10 counteracts the usual decay in performance as a function of time-on-task due to increasing boredom and mental fatigue.
(8) The Boredom Susceptibility subscale of the SSS correlated significantly with the number of sexual partners.
(9) One detainee I spoke to told me of racist taunting and abuse by guards, and boredom.
(10) Now, the Estonian architecture studio Salto has built an equally inventive solution to the boredom of the morning commute – a 51m (170ft) -long trampoline, so that you can bounce to your destination .
(11) These include Paul Helleu hard at work, his new young wife apparently asleep out of boredom in the background.
(12) Correlations between partners in the control couples were higher than those between partners in the dysfunctional couples on the SSS Total and Boredom Susceptibility scales, which replicated previous findings.
(13) He works the levers of public approval with consummate skill, yet can never quite conceal his slight boredom at how easy it is.
(14) The players complain of boredom, and yet don't appear to be able to apply themselves and concentrate.
(15) Beginning to feel the first prickles of boredom, I thought of young Nathan, for whom Minecraft was life, until it wasn't.
(16) Abnormal eating behaviors such as pica or coprophagy are usually caused by a dietary imbalance or boredom.
(17) , who grew his tache in 2010 because of “self-employed procrastination” ie boredom, but is reluctant to shave his off because it would make him look younger.
(18) What's staggering is that boredom still has such a wholesome, desirable image.
(19) What I actually did was marry the mind-numbing tedium of a second-rate reality show, with the plodding boredom of a sub-standard pub quiz.
(20) Responses to subjective questionnaires showed significant increases in boredom for both groups.