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L' ACEDIE

English translation: acedia (A mental disorder characterized by apathy and melancholia)

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French term or phrase:acédie
English translation:acedia (A mental disorder characterized by apathy and melancholia)
Entered by: Yolanda Broad

14:07 Jan 5, 2003
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / MEDICAL
French term or phrase: L' ACEDIE
Sous les diagnostics divers... ACEDIE, melancolie, neurasthenie - ce sont les memes symptomes qui perdurent.
Gordana Podvezanec
Croatia
Local time: 19:09
acedia
Explanation:
Reference Termium:
omaine(s)
  – Mental Disorders
Domaine(s)
  – Troubles mentaux
 
acedia Source
CORRECT

acédie Source
CORRECT, FÉM

DEF – A mental
disorder characterized
by apathy and
melancholia. Sou

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Note added at 2003-01-05 14:10:39 (GMT)
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Spiritual acedia, torpor and depression - John Navone - Homiletic ... - [ Traduire cette page ]
... calls us. Spiritual acedia, torpor and depression. By John Navone. n Hans ... 20, 4). Acedia, depression, steals life away. It immobilizes ...
www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Homiletic/ Aug-Sept99/depression.html - 19k

... In mid-life, this is experienced as the so-called \"noonday devil,\" acedia, the apathy and boredom (not clinical depression) that come from doing the same thing ...
www.whitecranejournal.com/wc00015.htm - 14k
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Francis MARC
Lithuania
Local time: 20:09
Grading comment
Merci beaucoup.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +2acedia
Francis MARC


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
acedia


Explanation:
Reference Termium:
omaine(s)
  – Mental Disorders
Domaine(s)
  – Troubles mentaux
 
acedia Source
CORRECT

acédie Source
CORRECT, FÉM

DEF – A mental
disorder characterized
by apathy and
melancholia. Sou

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2003-01-05 14:10:39 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Spiritual acedia, torpor and depression - John Navone - Homiletic ... - [ Traduire cette page ]
... calls us. Spiritual acedia, torpor and depression. By John Navone. n Hans ... 20, 4). Acedia, depression, steals life away. It immobilizes ...
www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Homiletic/ Aug-Sept99/depression.html - 19k

... In mid-life, this is experienced as the so-called \"noonday devil,\" acedia, the apathy and boredom (not clinical depression) that come from doing the same thing ...
www.whitecranejournal.com/wc00015.htm - 14k

Francis MARC
Lithuania
Local time: 20:09
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 141
Grading comment
Merci beaucoup.

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