The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accidie
Accidie \Ac"ci*die\, n. [OF. accide, accidie, LL. accidia,
acedia, fr. Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? care.]
Sloth; torpor. [Obs.] ``The sin of accidie.''
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
accidie
n. (context now literary English) sloth, slothfulness, especially as inducing general listlessness and apathy. (from 13th c.)
Usage examples of "accidie".
She seemed in the grip of some deep melancholy, some form of spiritual accidie that made life, on her own admission, no longer worth living.