spiritlessness

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Noun
  • There can also be severe neurological changes, such as confusion or lethargy.
    Julie Scott, Verywell Health, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In cats and dogs, symptoms can include fever, lethargy and loss of appetite, in addition to lymph node swelling under the jaw.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Later breakfast time was consistently connected with having physical and mental health conditions such as depression, excessive sleepiness, and dental problems.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • However, sleepiness returns when the caffeine wears off.
    Ashley Olivine, Verywell Health, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Still, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled last week that the central bank may cut its key interest rate at its meeting next month, amid signs of sluggishness in the job market.
    Alex Veiga, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio purports to be fixing bureaucratic sluggishness with decisive leadership.
    John Dinkelman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Kahneman’s work in Thinking, Fast and Slow highlights cognitive laziness, our tendency to seek quick answers and shortcuts that can come at the expense of deeper insight.
    Sarat Chakravarthi, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The results not only call into question a potential laziness developing as a result of an overreliance on AI, but also the changing relationship between medical practitioners and a longstanding tradition of analog training.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Talking about his predicament in a shaded wedge of grass near the center of Harvard Yard, Sial speaks with a mixture of passion, frustration and weariness, pushing back the shaggy hair that frequently falls over his eyes.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The book’s languor can be ponderous and vintage, more 20th century than 21st.
    Daniel Felsenthal, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 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 world does seem full of unhappiness and tragedy, much of it human-caused, either through outright cruelty or through the indolence of our illusions.
    Philip Metres July 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
  • Their waiter’s indolence meant a long wait even for menus, yet neither of them let drop a word of complaint.
    Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • The Kaufman-esque sequence that chases an ever-balding Mike through his movie roles and towards his destiny is great fun to watch, but ultimately calls our attention to the relative torpor that surrounds it.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Binging pasta might lead to a stomach ache and terrible torpor the next morning.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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