acedia

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Acedia, the theological version of melancholia, was the medieval view that exhaustion was considered sinful.

From National Geographic

He was, he wrote, a victim of "Acedia, the malady of monks," the deadly weakness of the will which leads to sloth and idleness.

From Time Magazine Archive