Synonyms for lethargy
ˈlɛθ ər dʒilethar·gy

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1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   apathy, calmness, composure, immobility, impassibility, indifference, insensibility, phlegm, quietness, quietude, sluggishness, stillness, stoicism, tranquillity, unconcern, unfeelingness

   Antonyms:
   agitation, alarm, anxiety, care, distress, disturbance, eagerness, emotion, excitement, feeling, frenzy, fury, passion, sensibility, sensitiveness, storm, susceptibility, sympathy, turbulence, vehemence, violence

   Preposition:
   The apathy of monastic life; apathy toward good.

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1. lethargy

   Synonyms:
   drowsiness, torpor, oblivion, stupor, swoon, trance

   Antonyms:
   vigilance, alertness, liveness, mindfulness, wakefulness, alacrity, activity, life

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1. lethargy, lassitude, sluggishnessnoun

   a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)

   Synonyms:
   phlegm, lassitude, listlessness, slackness, flatness, sluggishness, languor, inanition

2. inanition, lassitude, lethargy, slacknessnoun

   weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy

   Synonyms:
   languor, laxness, phlegm, lassitude, laxity, slack, listlessness, slackness, flatness, sluggishness, remissness, inanition

3. languor, 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

Matched Categories

1. • Torpor
   • Weakness

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1. lethargynoun

   Synonyms:
   stupor, torpor, COMA, stupefaction, hypnotism, stupidity, morbid drowsiness

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1. lethargynoun

   Synonyms:
   drowsiness, stupor, unconsciousness

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1. List of paraphrases for "lethargy":

   apathy, drowsiness

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1. Tom Shimabukuro:

   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.

2. Michael Masukawa:

   Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don't know what's going on, they don't care, and they're too lazy to find out.

3. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne:

   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.

4. Ashutosh Tewari:

   When a bacterial infection occurs in the urological region, lethargy, fever and sometimes white blood counts can go up.

5. William Ellery Channing:

   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.