Acedia is the malaise of the soul that comes from rejecting your basic nature, of denying the legitimacy of that which you know yourself in your deepest heart to be. It is the feeling of facing down your telos, screwing up your face, stamping your foot, and shouting "No! Shan't!"
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I think it's not so much about assigned purpose (I admit my use of "telos" was a bit misleading in that it mostly does mean that) as range of fit. Things lack an intrinsic purpose, but their nature strongly biases the set of purposes to which they can be applied.
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