> Acedia comes from the latin acedia, which itself comes from the Greek akedia, which translates as “lack of care”. Prior to the Christian era, ~the word denote

> Acedia comes from the latin acedia, which itself comes from the Greek akedia, which translates as “lack of care”. Prior to the Christian era, ~the word denoted the act of not burying one’s dead. Thus it connotes a dehumanization~. Man buries his dead; animals do not. Nault: The Noonday Devil