Lethargy vs Hiatus - What's the difference?
lethargy | hiatus |
(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.
* Atterbury
* 1995 , Bruce W Nelan, "Crime and Punishment", Time , 20 Mar 1995:
* 2008 , Nick Fletcher, The Guardian , 9 May 2008:
A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
An interruption, break or pause.
An unexpected break from work.
(geology) A gap in geological strata.
(anatomy) An opening in an organ.
(linguistics)
# A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)
# The condition of having such a break.
As nouns the difference between lethargy and hiatus
is that lethargy is (pathology) a condition characterized by extreme fatigue or drowsiness, or prolonged sleep patterns while hiatus is a gap in a series, making it incomplete.lethargy
English
Noun
- 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.
hiatus
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The band took a hiatus for three months.
- Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
- Words like'' reality ''and'' naïve ''contain vowels in hiatus .