Lethargy
noun
A state of tiredness, lack of energy or enthusiasm.
After a week of hard work, he felt an overwhelming sense of lethargy.
Often appears as...
- overwhelming lethargy
- sudden lethargy
noun
A pathological state of sleepiness or deep unconsciousness.
Severe cases of lethargy can be a symptom of a serious medical condition.
Often appears as...
- pathological lethargy
- severe lethargy
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Technical
noun
A state of tiredness, lack of energy or enthusiasm.
After a week of hard work, he felt an overwhelming sense of lethargy.
Often appears as...
- overwhelming lethargy
- sudden lethargy
noun
A pathological state of sleepiness or deep unconsciousness.
Severe cases of lethargy can be a symptom of a serious medical condition.
Often appears as...
- pathological lethargy
- severe lethargy
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionally Neutral
Lethargy doesn't imply sadness or happiness, but a lack of energy.
His lethargy made it hard for him to start the day.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
Sometimes lethargy just means needing rest, without blame or criticism.
The afternoon sun induced a pleasant lethargy over the beachgoers.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary State
Lethargy often refers to a temporary state, rather than a permanent trait.
A good night's sleep usually cures my bouts of lethargy.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionally Neutral
Lethargy doesn't imply sadness or happiness, but a lack of energy.
His lethargy made it hard for him to start the day.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
Sometimes lethargy just means needing rest, without blame or criticism.
The afternoon sun induced a pleasant lethargy over the beachgoers.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary State
Lethargy often refers to a temporary state, rather than a permanent trait.
A good night's sleep usually cures my bouts of lethargy.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionally Neutral
Lethargy doesn't imply sadness or happiness, but a lack of energy.
His lethargy made it hard for him to start the day.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
Sometimes lethargy just means needing rest, without blame or criticism.
The afternoon sun induced a pleasant lethargy over the beachgoers.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary State
Lethargy often refers to a temporary state, rather than a permanent trait.
A good night's sleep usually cures my bouts of lethargy.
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attention away from the lethargy of custom you know the habit dedenne's you know the film of familiarity and I think ah makes things new again and I think that's ultimately the best drug in the world that's the breakfast all ease salvation you said that once in an interview yes I did I just you know there was a recent article that I read
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Part Ape, Part Human:...
were walking on we must take the technology of the 21st century we must take this lethargy of the idea that we have found all the cool stuff and we must prepare everyone in this world for
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3 questions to ask...
But what I recognized is that the first try wasn't enough. And my question How do I move forward? How do I get beyond the bitterness and the sadness and the lethargy
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Expanding your mind with...
attention away from the lethargy of custom you know the habit dedenne's you know the film of familiarity and I think ah makes things new again and I think that's ultimately the best drug in the world that's the breakfast all ease salvation you said that once in an interview yes I did I just you know there was a recent article that I read
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Part Ape, Part Human:...
were walking on we must take the technology of the 21st century we must take this lethargy of the idea that we have found all the cool stuff and we must prepare everyone in this world for
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3 questions to ask...
But what I recognized is that the first try wasn't enough. And my question How do I move forward? How do I get beyond the bitterness and the sadness and the lethargy
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Ellen G. White
American Writer
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.
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Alanis Morissette
Canadian Musician
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
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Dorothea Dix
American Activist
We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.
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William Ellery Channing
American Writer
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul's range of delight.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
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Abhijit Banerjee
American Economist
There is no doubt that in the last years of the UPA's rule, a certain lethargy had set into the way the central government went about its business.
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Victor LaValle
American Author
Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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Francois Hollande
French Statesman
If Europe does not advance, it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map... My duty is to bring Europe out of its lethargy.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Ellen G. White
American Writer
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.
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Alanis Morissette
Canadian Musician
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
Quote examples
Dorothea Dix
American Activist
We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.
Quote examples
William Ellery Channing
American Writer
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
Quote examples
Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul's range of delight.
Quote examples
Virginia Woolf
British Author
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Quote examples
Abhijit Banerjee
American Economist
There is no doubt that in the last years of the UPA's rule, a certain lethargy had set into the way the central government went about its business.
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Victor LaValle
American Author
Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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Francois Hollande
French Statesman
If Europe does not advance, it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map... My duty is to bring Europe out of its lethargy.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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