1
as in boredom
physical or mental inertness
following a couple of big mistakes early in the game, the team sank into an uncharacteristic listlessness and was never able to recover the lead
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2
as in restlessness
the state of being bored
we searched desperately for something to jar us out of our listlessness
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3
as in weakness
the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor
general listlessness is often a side effect of chemotherapy
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for listlessness
Noun
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For the students, the evacuations at first carry an air of palpable panic, even a perverse frisson of adventure, though with frequent repetition, mortal danger gets blunted into exasperated boredom.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025 -
Blow Job, Sleep, Empire: with help from the Jonas Mekas propaganda wheel, these shifted the definition of beauty in the popular US lexicon: a filmed beauty, a gay beauty, a beauty of an intimate boredom.—
Carlos Valladares,
ARTnews.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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Oklahoma City addressed most of its playoff weaknesses from last May.—
Nick Crain,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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Barca were struggling to secure the future of a valuable asset and were nearing a position of weakness in negotiations from the summer, when the player would have a year left on his contract.—
Pol Ballús,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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The government has also been instrumental in supporting growth in recent months, through a spate of stimulus steps undertaken to revive the lethargy of an economy internally weighed down by lackluster domestic consumption and an extensive real estate slump.—
Anniek Bao,Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
17 Feb. 2025
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On the other hand, pets with salmonella infections may exhibit lethargy or have symptoms such as diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
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Nor is stealth aided by growing evidence of his own neglectful self-care: exhaustion, panic attacks, blackouts, a limp from unattended jogging injuries, eventually audio and visual hallucinations.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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However, the Magnificent 7 stocks have seen internal bifurcation in 2025, showing signs of exhaustion.—
Jeff Kilburg,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Slim, chiselled Tom wakes from his stupor, newly determined to prove his haters wrong.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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Symptoms of severe illness include high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness, disorientation, stupor, tremors, seizures, paralysis, or coma.—
Marley Malenfant,
Austin American-Statesman,
4 Sep. 2024
Noun
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The symptoms of fatigue may be masked temporarily — Red Bull helps — but, alas, they cannot be reversed.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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Symptoms may start days or weeks after consuming the bacteria and can include fever, muscle aches and fatigue.—
Katherine Dillinger,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Listlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/listlessness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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