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Lassitude vs Languish - What's the difference?

lassitude | languish |

As a noun lassitude

is lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue.

As a verb languish is

to lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.

lassitude

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue.
  • Listlessness or languor.

    • Quotations

    * 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 .''

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    languish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
  • * Bible, 2 Esdras viii. 31
    • We do languish of such diseases.
  • To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
    • He languished without his girlfriend
  • To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
    • He languished in prison for years
  • To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
    • The case languished for years before coming to trial.
  • (obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
  • * 1815 , Jane Austen, Emma
    • He is an excellent young man, and will suit Harriet exactly: it will be an "exactly so," as he says himself; but he does sigh and languish , and study for compliments rather more than I could endure as a principal.
    (Tennyson)

    Related terms

    * languid * languor * languorous