Lethargy vs Languor - What's the difference?
lethargy | languor | Synonyms |
(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.
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* 1995 , Bruce W Nelan, "Crime and Punishment", Time , 20 Mar 1995:
* 2008 , Nick Fletcher, The Guardian , 9 May 2008:
(uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude
(countable) listless indolence; dreaminess
(uncountable) dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnation
(obsolete, countable) An enfeebling disease; suffering
As nouns the difference between lethargy and languor
is that lethargy is a condition characterized by extreme fatigue or drowsiness, or prolonged sleep patterns while languor is a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude.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.
languor
English
Alternative forms
* languourNoun
- languor of convalescence
- a certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer --
- from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity --
