English to Kannada Meaning of acedia - ಅಸೀಡಿಯಾ


Acedia :
ಅಸೀಡಿಯಾ
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Definitions of acedia in English
Noun(1) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins
Examples of acedia in English
(1) I would, however, still be feeling something - melancholia or acedia , ennui, despair, nameless dread or another such psychic state historically lacking effective treatment.(2) Raposa takes the possibility of voluntary consent to acedia seriously, but he is more particularly concerned with boredom as a significant but ambiguous fact of the spiritual life.(3) Faced with this situation, Smithson felt that the task of the artist was to cultivate a thoroughgoing acedia : ‘The artist should be an actor who refuses to act’ and ‘Immobility and inertia are what many of the most gifted artists prefer.’(4) The Roman Catholic Church, which, like Nietzsche, knows something about conviction, has a name for this apathy: acedia , which is laziness of spirit, idleness of soul.(5) R. R. Reno's connection of an overblown fear of suffering with acedia or spiritual apathy in ‘Fighting the Noonday Devil’ (August / September) gave me an ‘aha!’(6) Few of us who read habitually ever feel called upon to defend the practice-a kind of reader's acedia , an occupational hazard.(7) If McKibben highlights pride and avarice, R. R. Reno contends that the most corrosive vice of our age is sloth, spiritual apathy, what the monks called ‘the noonday devil’ of acedia .(8) The distraction is rooted in acedia , the ancient soul-scourge about which the church fathers knew and wrote so much.(9) Stephens's various descriptions of indigenous acedia do indeed suggest that the people of Central America and Yucatan inhabit a different sort of time: lazy, circular, and stagnant.(10) Medieval English writers often speak of acedia as wanhope, a waning of confidence in the efficacy and importance of prayer.
(1) accustom ::
ರೂಢಿಮಾಡಿಕೊ
(2) accustomed to ::
ಒಗ್ಗಿಕೊಂಡಿರಲಿಲ್ಲವಾದ್ದರಿಂದ
(3) be accustomed to ::
ಒಗ್ಗಿಕೊಂಡಿರಬೇಕು
(4) become accustomed ::
ಒಗ್ಗಿಕೊಂಡಿರಲಿಲ್ಲವಾದ್ದರಿಂದ
(5) be accustomed ::
ಒಗ್ಗಿಕೊಂಡಿರಲಿಲ್ಲವಾದ್ದರಿಂದ
(6) get accustomed ::
ಒಗ್ಗಿಕೊಂಡಿರಲಿಲ್ಲವಾದ್ದರಿಂದ
(7) get accustomed to ::
ಒಗ್ಗಿಕೊಂಡಿರಲಿಲ್ಲವಾದ್ದರಿಂದ
(8) become accustomed to ::
ಒಗ್ಗಿಕೊಂಡಿರಲಿಲ್ಲವಾದ್ದರಿಂದ
(9) grow accustomed ::
ಒಗ್ಗಿಕೊಂಡಿರಲಿಲ್ಲವಾದ್ದರಿಂದ ಬೆಳೆಯುವ
Synonyms
Noun
1. sloth ::
ಸೋಮಾರಿತನ
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