akrasia

• acrasia

From Ancient Greek ἀκρασία (akrasía, “lacking command (over oneself)”).

• IPA^(key): /əˈkɹeɪziə/

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akrasia (uncountable)

1. Lack of self-control; excess; intemperance.
   • 2024 March 21, Shayla Love, “Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The concept of akrasia comes from a debate in ancient philosophy about whether it is possible to act against what you know to be good.

• acrasy

• acrasial
• akratic

• “acrasia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀκρασία (akrasía, “lacking command (over oneself)”).

• IPA^(key): /a.kra.ˈsi.a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧kra‧si‧a

akrasia (plural akrasia-akrasia, first-person possessive akrasiaku, second-person possessive akrasiamu, third-person possessive akrasianya)

1. (philosophy) acrasia

• “akrasia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.