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Lassitude

noun
1.
A state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness).  Synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness.
2.
A feeling of lack of interest or energy.  Synonyms: languor, listlessness.
3.
Weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy.  Synonyms: inanition, lethargy, slackness.






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"Lassitude" Quotes from Famous Books



... Street is one of lassitude and expectancy. The great banks have an abundance, perhaps a superabundance, of money, their own and their depositors, which they are only too glad to lend on solid and readily salable collateral at low ...
— The Arena - Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 • Various

... reference to the amount of excretions, and believed that a monthly increase in weight to the amount of one or two pounds occurred in men, followed by a critical discharge of urine, this crisis being preceded by feelings of heaviness and lassitude.[119] Gall, another great initiator of modern views, likewise asserted a monthly cycle in men. He insisted that there is a monthly critical period, more marked in nervous people than in others, and that at this time the complexion becomes ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... my way some two or three miles up the gorge, when I became sensible of a singular faintness stealing over me. A chill crept through my frame—not like that produced by cold from without; but as if the blood was freezing in my veins! The feeling was accompanied by a sense of torpor and lassitude— like that experienced by one dropping to sleep in a snow-storm. I made an effort to rouse myself—thinking it was sleep that was oppressing me. It might well have been—since it was more than thirty hours since I had slept, and then ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... on two successive days had exhausted him physically; and the strain of securing and ensuring the safety and happiness of the woman who was dearer to him than life, had reacted now in a mental lassitude which seemed unable to rise up and face the prospect of the ...
— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay

... prevails among the company, and the exposure to cold or dampness to which their unprepared systems are often subjected in returning home, Death has marked many a victim for his own; while, at the best, lassitude and depression are sure to follow, from which it will require ...
— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson


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