Fatigue vs Lethargy - What's the difference?
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A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
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A menial task, especially in the military.
(engineering) A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.
* 2013 , N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials , page 399
to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
(intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
(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 fatigue and lethargy
is that fatigue is a weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion while lethargy is a condition characterized by extreme fatigue or drowsiness, or prolonged sleep patterns.As a verb fatigue
is to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.fatigue
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- Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.
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* fatigues (military work clothing)Verb
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- 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.
