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Heaviness vs Listlessness - What's the difference?

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Heaviness is a related term of listlessness.


As nouns the difference between heaviness and listlessness

is that heaviness is the state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity while listlessness is the state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.

heaviness

English

Noun

  • The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
  • (obsolete) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
  • *:First got with guile, and then preseru'd with dread, / And after spent with pride and lauishnesse, / Leauing behind them griefe and heauinesse .

    • listlessness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , 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.}}