But every thing must have an end. A motion made by this angelic youth, in the listlessness of going off sleep, replac'd his shirt and the bed-cloaths in a posture that shut up that treasure from longer view.
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Listlessness
Synonyms for "listlessness" (135 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (41)
Related words (67)
lack of interestlackadaisicalnesslanguidnesslanguishmentlanguorousnesslassitudelenitudelentorlethargicalnesslethargylifelessnessmindlessnessnegligencenonchalancenumbnessoscitancypassivenesspassivityphlegmphlegmaticalness
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phlegmaticnessplucklessnesspococurantismprostrationrecklessnessregardlessnessresignationresignednesssadnesssatednesssleepinessslothslothfulnessslownesssluggishnesssoftnesssomnolencesoporsoporifousnessspiritlessnessspunklessnessstoliditystrengthlessnessstupefactionstuporsupinenesstorpiditytorpidnesstorpitudetorporunanxiousnessunconcernuninquisitivenessuninterestednessunmindfulnessunsolicitousnessweaklinessweaknesswearinesswithdrawalwithdrawnnessworld-weariness
Noun(5 words)
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Translations
20 translations across 12 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- lusteloosheid noun (state of being listless)
Esperanto
1 entries- spleno noun (state of being listless)
German
1 entries- Lustlosigkeit noun (state of being listless)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌿𐌽𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 noun (state of being listless)
Greek
3 entries- ακηδία noun (state of being listless)
- ατονία noun (state of being listless)
- νωθρότητα noun (state of being listless)
Irish
1 entries- díbheocht noun (state of being listless)
Latin
3 entries- ignavia noun (state of being listless)
- torpor noun (state of being listless)
- veternus noun (state of being listless)
Māori
1 entries- tīrohea noun (state of being listless)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- گوشكلك noun (state of being listless)
Polish
1 entries- anemiczność noun (state of being listless)
Sicilian
1 entries- siḍḍiju noun (state of being listless)
Turkish
4 entries- bezginlik noun (state of being listless)
- bıkkınlık noun (state of being listless)
- usantı noun (state of being listless)
- usanç noun (state of being listless)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of every thing’s being dull and insipid about the house!— I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not—for a few weeks at least.
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[…] lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually flitting through it.
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