noun · uncountable

acrasia

acras·ia

Lack of self-control; excess, intemperance; also, irregular or unruly behaviourLack of self-control; excess, intemperance; also, irregular or unruly behaviour.

UK/əˈkɹeɪ.zɪ.ə/US/əˈkɹeɪ.zi.ə/

Meaning

1 senses

(archaic, rare, uncountable)Lack of self-control; excess, intemperance; also, irregular or unruly behaviour.
Akrasia, innerer Schweinehund
акра́зияakrázija

Translations

5 languages

Русский

lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance:

Deutsch

lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Late Latin acrasia (“lack of temperance”), and from its etymon Anci

Learned borrowing from Late Latin acrasia (“lack of temperance”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ (ăkrāsĭ́ā, “bad mixture”), from ἄκρᾱτος (ákrātos, “pure, unmixed, untempered; of a person: intemperate, violent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ἄκρᾱτος (Ákrātos) is derived from ᾰ̓- (ă-, “privative”, prefix) + κερᾰ́ννῡμῐ (kerắnnūmĭ, “to mix, blend; to cool or temper by mixing”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to mix”)) + -τος (-tos, suffix forming adjectives). Doublet of acrasy.

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