Lethargy vs Indolent - What's the difference?
lethargy | indolent |
(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:
Habitually]] lazy, [[procrastinate, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour.
Inducing laziness (e.g. indolent comfort ).
(medicine) Causing scant or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
(medicine) Healing slowly.
As a noun lethargy
is (pathology) a condition characterized by extreme fatigue or drowsiness, or prolonged sleep patterns.As an adjective indolent is
habitually]] lazy, [[procrastinate|procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour.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.
indolent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.
