Learned borrowing fromLate Latinacrasia(“lack of temperance”), and from itsetymonAncient Greekᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ(ăkrāsĭ́ā,“bad mixture”) (see further atacrasia) +English-y(suffix formingabstract nouns denoting conditions, qualities, or states).^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation, General American)IPA^(key): /ˈækɹəsi/

acrasy (countable anduncountable,pluralacrasies)

1. (archaic, uncountable)Synonym ofacrasia(“lack ofself-control;intemperance,excess; also,irregular orunrulybehaviour”);(countable) aninstance of this.
   • a. 1658,Anthony Farindon,a sermon

     Deſpair may have its original not onely from theacraſie and diſcompoſedneſs of the outward man[…]

   • 1847,The Reasoner, volume 2, page254:

     There will be hesitancy in what is said, and irregularity in what is done, but it will be but theacrasy of youth or of genius,―the spirit and purpose of progress will be there, and we can cheerfully wait its time.

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