Him fortuned (hard fortune ye may gheſſe) / To come, vvhere vile Acraſia does vvonne [live], / Acraſia a falſe enchauntereſſe, / That many errant knightes hath fovvle fordonne: […]
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Acrasia
//əˈkɹeɪ.zɪ.ə//
Synonyms for "acrasia" (41 found)
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15 translations across 10 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
Dutch
2 entries- akrasia noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
- wilszwakte noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
Finnish
3 entries- akrasia noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
- kurittomuus noun (irregular or unruly behaviour)
- kärsimättömyys noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
German
2 entries- Akrasia noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
- innerer Schweinehund noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐌷𐍉𐌱𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
Persian
2 entries- بیاختیاری noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
- زیادهروی noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
Polish
1 entries- akrasia noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
Portuguese
1 entries- acrasia noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
Russian
1 entries- акра́зия noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
Spanish
1 entries- acrasia noun (lack of self-control — see also excess, intemperance)
Sample sentences
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VVaſte your hours in the lap of diſſipation: reſign yourſelf up to the faſcinations of Acrasia; and ſport in the Bovver of Bliss. Cover your tables vvith delicacies, at the expence of your famiſhed clans.
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It has been already remarked, that, by the humoral pathologists, organic diseases in general, and of course inflammation, were attributed to an akrasia or intemperies, consisting in an inordinate flow to certain organs of one or other of the four principal fluids of the body; that of blood producing the phlegmenous inflammation; that of yellow bile, the erythematic, or, as they call it, the erysipelatous; that of the black bile, the scirrhous; that that of the phlegm, the leucophlegmatic, or œdematous, an affection now known to be not of itself inflammatory, although a frequent consequence of inflammation.
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The psychological doctrine of the Gorgias is more mature. It recognizes the presence in the soul of irrational or good-independent desires (epithymiai), and represents the virtuous soul as one characterized by harmony and order, which requires the restraining of desire […] The Protagoras, by contrast, denies the reality of acrasia and thus implicitly denies the existence of good-independent desires.
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