Meanings
plural acrasies
- archaicuncountableSynonym of acrasia (“lack of self-control; intemperance, excess; also, irregular or unruly behaviour”); (countable) an instance of this.
a. 1658, Anthony Farindon, a sermon Deſpair may have its original not onely from the acraſie and diſcompoſedneſs of the outward man[…]
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There will be hesitancy in what is said, and irregularity in what is done, but it will be but the acrasy of youth or of genius,―the spirit and purpose of progress will be there, and we can cheerfully wait its time.
1847, The Reasoner, volume 2, page 254Synonyms: acrasia
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of acrasia (“lack of self-control; intemperance, excess; also, irregular or unruly behaviour”); (countable) an instance of this.
Origin
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ“bad mixture”
- Late Latinacrasia“lack of temperance”
- Englishacrasy
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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