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Lassitude

//ˈlæsɪˌtjuːd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue, languor, listlessness countable, uncountable

    "Rufus Dawes, though his eyelids would scarcely keep open, and a terrible lassitude almost paralysed his limbs, eagerly drank in the whispered sentence."

  2. 2
    weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy wordnet
  3. 3
    a feeling of lack of interest or energy wordnet
  4. 4
    a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French lassitude, from Latin lassitūdō (“faintness, weariness”), from lassus (“faint, weary”), perhaps for *ladtus, and thus akin to English late.

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