acrasy

Meaning

Synonym of acrasia (“lack of self-control; intemperance, excess; also, irregular or unruly behaviour”); (countable) an instance of this.

Synonyms

acrasia

Translations

Zügellosigkeit

acrasie

intemperanza

sregolatezza

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈækɹəsi/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin acrasia (“lack of temperance”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ (ăkrāsĭ́ā, “bad mixture”) (see further at acrasia) + English -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting conditions, qualities, or states).