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Acrasy

//ˈækɹəsi// noun

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Noun

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Synonym of acrasia (“lack of self-control; intemperance, excess; also, irregular or unruly behaviour”); (countable) an instance of this. archaic, uncountable
"a. 1658, Anthony Farindon, a sermon Deſpair may have its original not onely from the acraſie and diſcompoſedneſs of the outward man[…]"

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin acrasia (“lack of temperance”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ (ăkrāsĭ́ā, “bad mixture”) (see further at acrasia) + English -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting conditions, qualities, or states).

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