spiritlessness

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Noun
  • Some of these symptoms include a high fever, lethargy, hearing loss, kidney failure, confusion, brain damage, learning disabilities, coma and possibly death.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Common symptoms for domoic acid poisoning include lethargy, seizures, a bobbing and weaving of their heads and in some cases, aggression, Viezbicke said.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This languor expands in the velvety air.
    J.T. Townley, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2025
  • During an epidemic that otherwise made life hectic and clamorous, the militarized languor of the residents was glaring precisely because Liberians who were already displaced from the recent Civil War felt abandoned by the government.
    Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The idea of Irish indolence fused with a quasi-religious faith in the laws of the market to shape the British response to the famine.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The government insisted that the corn be sold rather than given away (free food would merely reinforce Irish indolence), and those who received it had little idea at first how to cook it.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the mid-to-late ’70s, when New York was sunk into the torpor of potential economic ruin, the city was fabled in another way.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
  • There are many reasons why putting humans into torpor for long-duration spaceflight is a good idea.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2016
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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