accidie

And this book about “million-dollar babies” has a lot of million-dollar words: etiolated, accidie, budgerigar.

For Ms. Didion, that was not just a literary but a spiritual exercise, conducted in opposition to what she calls the “accidie” — the moral torpor — of the late 1960s.

Such was the deadly sin of accidie, the name of which is forgotten today, though the thing itself is with us still.

For Envye blindeth the herte of a man, and Ire troubleth a man; and Accidie maketh him hevy, thoghtful and wrawe.

Envye and Ire maken bitternesse in herte; which bitternesse is moder of Accidie and binimeth him the love of alle goodnesse.