Meanings
- uncountableThe (purported) ability to live without food.
Stigmatics are by no means the only mystics to experience inedia; on the contrary, it is a condition that has been experienced by a great many Catholic mystics.
1989, Michael P. Carroll, Catholic Cults and Devotions: A Psychological Inquiry, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 822 more examples
The problems of establishing the facts are redoubled when the discussion is narrowed to the type of inedia which in itself is less susceptible to natural explanation and intrinsically more plausible as a sign: active inedia.
1965, Robert D. Smith, Comparative Miracles, B.Herder Book Company, page 34Vigorous debates on inedia clearly illustrate the range of difficulties. Unlike visions and locutions, accessible only to those who experience them, inedia can be observed and monitored by others.
2001 April 19, Anne Jacobson Schutte, Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 134
Origin
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