acrasia
4 synonyms for acrasia, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A lack of self-control, leading to excess or unruly behaviour.
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Etymology
A learned borrowing from Late Latin acrasia (“lack of temperance”), taken along with its Ancient Greek etymon ᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ (ăkrāsĭ́ā, “bad mixture”), which is made up of ἄκρᾱτος (ákrātos, “pure, unmixed; of a person: intemperate, violent”) and -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ἄκρᾱτος (Ákrātos) in turn...
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