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Sluggishness vs Listlessness - What's the difference?

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Sluggishness is a related term of listlessness.


As nouns the difference between sluggishness and listlessness

is that sluggishness is the property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly while listlessness is the state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.

sluggishness

English

Noun

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  • The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
  • The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
  • * 2012 , , Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty? :
  • ** And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.

    • listlessness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , But every thing must have an end. A motion made by this angelic youth, in the listlessness of going off sleep, replac'd his shirt and the bed-cloaths in a posture that shut up that treasure from longer view.}}