Synonyms for phlegm
flɛmphlegm

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1. phlegm

   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, lethargy, 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. emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionalitynoun

   apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

   Synonyms:
   sluggishness, spiritlessness, sputum, indifference, stolidness, flatness, emotionlessness, lethargy, languor, numbness, unemotionality, impassiveness, impassivity, stoicism, nonchalance, apathy, stolidity, unconcern

2. phlegm, sputumnoun

   expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness

   Synonyms:
   languor, indifference, impassivity, sputum, emotionlessness, flatness, lethargy, sluggishness, impassiveness, stolidity, unemotionality

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, lethargy, languor, slackness, unemotionality, listlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, lassitude, indifference, two-dimensionality, matte, stolidity, mat, planeness

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1. phlegmnoun

   Synonyms:
   mucus, excrementitious humor

2. phlegmnoun

   Synonyms:
   apathy, insensibility, dulness, indifference, coldness, sluggishness

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1. phlegmnoun

   Synonyms:
   mucus

2. phlegmnoun

   Synonyms:
   dullness, sluggishness, coldness, indifference

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1. List of paraphrases for "phlegm":

   mucus, snot, mucous

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. phlegm

   Synonyms:
   Sputum, see there, especially containing yellow-green goo
   

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1. A.E. Samaan:

   The Earth is nothing but phlegm spat out by the Sun, and our immediate solar system a whirlwind of boulders. There is no delicate balance.