What are some opposite words for lethargy?
Antonyms for lethargy
ˈlɛθ ər dʒilethar·gy
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term lethargy.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
lethargy
Apathy, according to its Greek derivation, is a simple absence of feeling or emotion. There are persons to whom a certain degree of apathy is natural, an innate sluggishness of the emotional nature. In the apathy of despair, a person gives up, without resistance or sensibility, to what he has fiercely struggled to avoid. While apathy is want of feeling, calmness is feeling without agitation. Calmness is the result of strength, courage, or trust; apathy is the result of dulness or weakness. Composure is freedom from agitation or disturbance, resulting ordinarily from force of will, or from perfect confidence in one's own resources. Impassibility is a philosophical term applied to the Deity, as infinitely exalted above all stir of passion or emotion. Unfeelingness, the Saxon word that should be the exact equivalent of apathy, really means more, a lack of the feeling one ought to have, a censurable hardness of heart. Indifference and insensibility designate the absence of feeling toward certain persons or things; apathy, entire absence of feeling. Indifference is a want of interest; insensibility is a want of feeling; unconcern has reference to consequences. We speak of insensibility of heart, immobility of countenance. Stoicism is an intentional suppression of feeling and deadening of sensibilities, while apathy is involuntary. Compare CALM; REST; STUPOR.
Antonyms:
agitation, alarm, anxiety, care, distress, disturbance, eagerness, emotion, excitement, feeling, frenzy, fury, passion, sensibility, sensitiveness, storm, susceptibility, sympathy, turbulence, vehemence, violenceSynonyms:
apathy, calmness, composure, immobility, impassibility, indifference, insensibility, phlegm, quietness, quietude, sluggishness, stillness, stoicism, tranquillity, unconcern, unfeelingnessPreposition:
The apathy of monastic life; apathy toward good.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
lethargy
Antonyms:
vigilance, alertness, liveness, mindfulness, wakefulness, alacrity, activity, lifeSynonyms:
drowsiness, torpor, oblivion, stupor, swoon, trance
Princeton's WordNet
lethargy, lassitude, sluggishnessnoun
a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
Synonyms:
phlegm, lassitude, listlessness, slackness, flatness, sluggishness, languor, inanitioninanition, lassitude, lethargy, slacknessnoun
weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
Synonyms:
languor, laxness, phlegm, lassitude, laxity, slack, listlessness, slackness, flatness, sluggishness, remissness, inanitionlanguor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatnessnoun
inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
"the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"
Synonyms:
lusterlessness, sluggishness, matt, sputum, dreaminess, inanition, flatness, emotionlessness, lustrelessness, languor, slackness, unemotionality, listlessness, impassiveness, phlegm, impassivity, lassitude, indifference, two-dimensionality, matte, stolidity, mat, planeness
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
lethargynoun
Synonyms:
drowsiness, stupor, unconsciousness
How to use lethargy in a sentence?
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.
Every year, a large amount of funds allocated for irrigation lie unutilized and that's because of lethargy, red tape, inept administration and a lack of political will.
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 aidthem to judge for themselves.
The important thing to note here is the initial features are largely kind of nonspecific symptoms, which at initial presentation -- or when a patient starts to become symptomatic -- may seem kind of mild and not that clinically significant -- things like headaches, lethargy, chills, myalgia, later features include severe headache, some focal signs, in one case severe abdominal pain, bruising, swelling in the lower extremities.
When a bacterial infection occurs in the urological region, lethargy, fever and sometimes white blood counts can go up.
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#200 | life | |
#309 | care | |
#1015 | activity | |
#2720 | violence | |
#2935 | feeling | |
#3413 | storm | |
#4148 | alarm | |
#4973 | passion | |
#6386 | anxiety | |
#9726 | excitement | |
#9861 | sympathy | |
#10424 | emotion | |
#12585 | fury | |
#12669 | distress | |
#14374 | disturbance | |
#17794 | susceptibility | |
#18665 | frenzy | |
#19647 | turbulence | |
#26274 | sensibility | |
#28106 | agitation | |
#29889 | vigilance | |
#42093 | mindfulness | |
#46529 | eagerness | |
#47485 | alertness | |
#54283 | lethargy | |
#84429 | alacrity | |
#86052 | vehemence | |
#87399 | liveness | |
#90405 | wakefulness | |
#152198 | sensitiveness |
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