Exhaustion vs Listlessness - What's the difference?
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The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
(dated, physics) The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
(maths) An exhaustive procedure
The state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.
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, But every thing must have an end. A motion made by this angelic youth, in the listlessness of going off sleep, replac'd his shirt and the bed-cloaths in a posture that shut up that treasure from longer view.}}
As nouns the difference between exhaustion and listlessness
is that exhaustion is the point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up while listlessness is the state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.exhaustion
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion , prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}