acrasia.
Lack of self-control; excess, intemperance; also, irregular or unruly behaviour.
Meaning & usage
Lack of self-control; excess, intemperance; also, irregular or unruly behaviour.
Where this word comes from
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.
Alternative spelling of akrasia (“(uncountable) lack of physical or (especially) mental strength; poor willpower; also, the tendency to act contrary to one's better judgment; (countable) an instance of this”)
Where this word comes from
A variant of akrasia.
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