supineness

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Noun
  • Panleukopenia - lethargy, depression, vomiting, diarrhea, painful abdomen, dehydration, weight loss, rough or unkempt hair coat, fever, decreased to absent appetite or collapse.
    Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Per the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), symptoms of parvovirus can include lethargy, loss of appetite, vomiting, severe and often bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain and bloating, and fever or low body temperature (hypothermia).
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The floor spattered with boredom and apathy.
    Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Disengagement is rarely born out of mere apathy.
    Eyal Benishti, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And by the inertia of ownership.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Character animations are slick, but reliable in their control and inertia — rarely leading to flubs caused by anything other than player error.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Infield singles by Jake Cronenworth and Tatis in the eighth inning, both of which caromed off pitcher Gregory Soto, broke up the offensive languor but did not result in the game being any closer.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • On Girl Violence, Strauss drenches her songs in feedback and languor, adding heat to her expressions of desire and comfort to her feelings of anxiety.
    Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 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
  • Europe’s lassitude is heightened by internal divisions.
    HENRY FARRELL, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • As something of a companion piece to More, Jacques Deray’s summer thriller La Piscine is a far more dramatic and insidious tale of tropical desire, lassitude, and violence.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • As a result, pricing has stayed relatively stable despite the sluggishness.
    John Walkup, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Slackers aren’t a monolith, these films suggest, and their creed is more than just a hipster variant of laziness.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Track the effort paradox in your own results, practice strategic laziness by focusing only on what matters, choose clarity over activity, recognize exhaustion as your enemy not your edge, and protect restoration time as innovation fuel.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Supineness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supineness. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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