ἀβουλία

• ἀβουλίη (aboulíē) — Ionic

ἀ- (a-, “not”, alpha privativum) +‎ βουλή (boulḗ, “will, determination, decision”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract-noun-forming suffix)

ἀβουλῐ́ᾱ • (aboulíā) f (genitive ἀβουλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. ill-advisedness, thoughtlessness
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 10.41
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.9.9B
     • Herodotus, Histories 7.210
     • Herodotus, Histories 8.57
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 4.2.6
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander 16.9D
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 398
     • Sophocles, Electra 429
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 750
2. irresolution
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.75.3
   1. indecision
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 119

• → New Latin: abūlia
  • → English: abulia, aboulia, aboulomania
  • → Finnish: abulia
  • → Italian: abulia
  • → Portuguese: abulia
  • → Russian: абулия (abulija)
  • → Spanish: abulia

• “ἀβουλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀβουλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀβουλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀβουλία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀβουλία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • folly idem, page 332.
  • impolicy idem, page 422.
  • imprudence idem, page 425.
  • incautiousness idem, page 427.
  • indiscretion idem, page 434.
  • injudiciousness idem, page 441.
  • lunacy idem, page 504.
  • policy idem, page 624.
  • rashness idem, page 673.
  • recklessness idem, page 679.
  • senselessness idem, page 753.
  • short-sightedness idem, page 769.
  • silliness idem, page 776.
  • stupidity idem, page 830.
  • temerity idem, page 859.
  • thoughtlessness idem, page 868.
  • unwisdom idem, page 937.