Deadpan vs Lethargy - What's the difference?
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Deliberately impassive or expressionless (as a face or look).
Having such a face or look (as a person).
Impassive (as behaviour or speech).
A style of comedic delivery in which something humourous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
* 2007 , ,
To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner.
(pathology) A condition characterized by extreme fatigue or drowsiness, or prolonged sleep patterns.
* c. 1599 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry IV, Part 2 :
* 2003 , Amanda Ripley, "At Last, the Pill for Men", Time , 20 Oct 2003:
A state of extreme torpor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion or interest; loosely, sluggishness, laziness.
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* 1995 , Bruce W Nelan, "Crime and Punishment", Time , 20 Mar 1995:
* 2008 , Nick Fletcher, The Guardian , 9 May 2008:
As nouns the difference between deadpan and lethargy
is that deadpan is a style of comedic delivery in which something humourous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression while lethargy is a condition characterized by extreme fatigue or drowsiness, or prolonged sleep patterns.As an adjective deadpan
is deliberately impassive or expressionless (as a face or look).As a verb deadpan
is to express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner.deadpan
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(wikipedia deadpan)Alternative forms
* dead-pan * dead panAdjective
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* poker facedNoun
(-)Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan
- MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing .
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* deadpan comedy * deadpan humourVerb
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*lethargy
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Noun
- This Apoplexie is (as I take it) a kind of Lethargie , a sleeping of the blood, a horson Tingling.
- So in order to avoid unpleasant side effects like lethargy and sexual dysfunction, most recent trials also gave men testosterone supplements.
- Europe lay then under a deep lethargy .
- Yakovlev, one of the architects of the reforms put in place by Mikhail Gorbachev, says he too is "amazed" at the government's lethargy .
- The increase in mining stocks helped the FTSE 100 shake off some earlier lethargy and close 9.8 points higher at 6270.8, despite the disappointment of unchanged UK interest rates.
