acrasia
Plural: acrasias
Noun
- A lack of self-control or moderation; intemperance.
- Lack of self-control; excess, intemperance; also, irregular or unruly behaviour.
- Alternative spelling of akrasia (“(uncountable) lack of physical or (especially) mental strength; poor willpower; also, the tendency to act contrary to one's better judgment; (countable) an instance of this”)
Examples
- His acrasia led him to play the first word he saw, not the best one.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin acrasia (“lack of temperance”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ (ăkrāsĭ́ā, “bad mixture”), from ἄκρᾱτος (ákrātos, “pure, unmixed; of a person: intemperate, violent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ἄκρᾱτος (Ákrātos) is derived from ᾰ̓- (ă-, prefix forming terms having a sense opposite to the stems or words to which it is attached) + κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to blend, mix; to cool or temper by mixing”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; horn”)) + -τος (-tos, suffix forming adjectives). Doublet of acrasy.
Synonyms
abundance, acrasia, acrasy, copiousness, excess, excessiveness, exuberance, fecundity, fertileness, fertility, fruitfulness, fulth, glut, immoderation, incontinence, intemperance, mountain, nimiety, overabundance, overage, overflow, overplus, overquantity, oversum, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, productiveness, profusion, superabundance, superaddition, superfluity, superfluousness, superflux, superplus, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, uberty, ug
Scrabble Score: 9
acrasia: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordacrasia: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
acrasia: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary