supineness

noun

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as in lethargy

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  1. lethargy
  2. apathy
  3. inertia
  4. languor
  5. indolence
  6. lassitude
  7. sluggishness
  8. laziness
Noun
  • Symptoms include coughing, rapid breathing, lethargy, and reluctance to exercise; open-mouth breathing in cats is an emergency.
    — Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Helado Tropical is a fitting soundtrack for the part of the summer when the season settles into a sweaty and pensive lethargy.
    — E.R. Pulgar, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
Definition of lethargy
Noun
  • From the outside, these behaviors may look like apathy, avoidance or poor leadership.
    — Jennifer Wisdom, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • That positive word of mouth would overcome the apathy towards the film's plot and the off-putting remarks from Alcock.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of apathy
Noun
  • Local officials primarily blame budget concerns, along with political inertia, for the ongoing stalemate.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
  • History shows commissions, like the successful base closing panel, require such mechanisms and strong presidential leadership to overcome political inertia.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of inertia
Noun
  • Liu’s Dominique sometimes loses patience and cuts through the languor with some common sense.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
  • Both for the islanders and for us, the summer shimmers with a hallucinatory mixture of languor and emotional speed, as summers do in childhood.
    — Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
Definition of languor
Noun
  • Although a genius at depicting indolence, Hockney himself worked with a rigorous commitment.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
  • The rapid growth of AI data centers is simply forcing us to reckon with many years of indolence.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
Definition of indolence
Noun
  • Stranger by the Lake is a bookend of sorts to La Piscine, as both films seem to condemn their characters, and by extension, the counterculture surrounding them, to a lassitude incapable of any moral authority.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
  • The result of this lassitude is that cars still rule the streets.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025
Definition of lassitude
Noun
  • In fact, the battle could have cleared House of the Dragon of its reputation for sluggishness.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • Yet sluggishness at the very top is masking dynamism throughout the rest of the list, as a new generation of firms—whether Vietnamese conglomerates, Singaporean banks, or once-loss-making digital platforms—is capturing a greater share of regional revenue and profits.
    — Andrew Staples, Fortune, 16 June 2026
Definition of sluggishness
Noun
  • The reason has less to do with laziness than self-preservation.
    — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Positive qualities—promptness, diligence, cheerfulness—sped up your ascent through the ranks; negative ones—laziness, dissipation, late mornings—slowed it down.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
Definition of laziness
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