acrasia

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈkɹeɪ.zɪ.ə/, /-ˈkɹæ-/ (General American) IPA(key): /əˈkɹeɪ.zi.ə/ Homophone: akrasia Hyphenation: acras‧ia === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from Late Latin acrasia (“lack of temperance”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ (ăkrāsĭ́ā, “bad mixture”), from ἄκρᾱτος (ákrātos, “pure, unmixed; of a person: intemperate, violent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ἄκρᾱτος (Ákrātos) is derived from ᾰ̓- (ă-, prefix forming terms having a sense opposite to the stems or words to which it is attached) + κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to blend, mix; to cool or temper by mixing”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; horn”)) + -τος (-tos, suffix forming adjectives). Doublet of acrasy. ==== Noun ==== acrasia (uncountable) (archaic, rare) Lack of self-control; excess, intemperance; also, irregular or unruly behaviour. Synonyms: acrasy, immoderation, incontinence; see also Thesaurus:excess ===== Usage notes ===== Many uses of the word refer to book II of The Faerie Queene (1590) by the English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 1599) (see the quotation), in which Acrasia is a wicked enchantress living in the Bower of Bliss who causes men to seek pleasure excessively, thus luring them to their deaths. She is eventually defeated by Sir Guyon, who resists temptations to idleness, lust, and violence. Not to be confused with akrasia (despite some overlap in meaning), which is sometimes spelled acrasia: see etymology 2 below. ===== Derived terms ===== acrasial ===== Related terms ===== acrasy dyscrasia ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === A variant of akrasia. ==== Noun ==== acrasia (countable and uncountable, plural acrasias) (philosophy) 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”) ===== Related terms ===== acratic acratically === References === === Further reading === self-control on Wikipedia.Wikipedia acrasia (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “acrasia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: a‧cra‧si‧a === Noun === acrasia f (uncountable) acrasia (lack of self-control) === Further reading === “acrasia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “acrasia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aˈkɾasja/ [aˈkɾa.sja] Rhymes: -asja Syllabification: a‧cra‧sia === Noun === acrasia f (uncountable) acrasia (lack of self-control)