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ἀπαιδευσίαν (apaideusian)

ἀπαιδευσίαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπαιδευσία, meaning “want of education; stupidity”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Dion 9.1: αἰτίαν δέ τούτου τὴν ἀπαιδευσίαν εἶναι νομίζων ἐμβαλεῖν αὐτὸν εἰς διατριβὰς ἐλευθερίους ἐφιλοτιμεῖτο καὶ γεῦσαι λόγων καὶ μαθημάτων ἠθοποιῶν, ὡς ἀρετήν τε παύσαιτο δεδιὼς καὶ τοῖς καλοῖς χαίρειν ἐθισθείη.

All forms of ἀπαιδευσία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.