Lassitude vs Asthenosphere - What's the difference?
lassitude | asthenosphere |
(geology) The zone of the Earth's upper mantle, below the lithosphere.
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, p. 192:
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 79:
As nouns the difference between lassitude and asthenosphere
is that lassitude is lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue while asthenosphere is (geology) the zone of the earth's upper mantle, below the lithosphere.lassitude
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* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VII *: Rufus Dawes, though his eyelids would scarcely keep open, and a terrible lassitude almost paralysed his limbs, eagerly drank in the whispered sentence. * 1919 , *: "Then it's No, darling?" he said at last. *: She gave a gesture of lassitude . She was exhausted. *: "The studio is yours. Everything belongs to you. If you want to bring him here, how can I prevent you?" * 2004 , "Is Slacking the Only Way to Survive the Office?," The Scotsman (Edinburgh), 16 Aug, *: In order to appear busy, one should pace around the office clutching files.... The best part of this ancient ritual is that it tends to make one's colleagues look away—just in case you and your papers are going to interrupt their own lassitude . * 2004 , Rob Hughes, "Soccer: The Olympic Flame Running Low on Fuel," International Herald Tribune (Paris), 11 Aug., *: At Euro 2004 and the 2002 World Cup, Blatter commented this week, many stars were physically and mentally exhausted, and left an aftertaste of nonchalance and lassitude .''External links
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(wikipedia asthenosphere)Noun
(en noun)- To say that the lithosphere floats on top of the asthenosphere suggests a degree of easy buoyancy that isn't quite right.
- The asthenosphere that underlies the surface plates is not liquid in any vernacular sense, although it is relatively plastic.