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lassitude

[ las-i-tood, -tyood ]

noun

  1. weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor:

    It was yet another day of extreme heat and lassitude.

  2. a condition of lazy indifference:

    Democracy is hard work, and demands that citizens not drift into lassitude.



lassitude

/ ˈ±ôæ²õɪˌ³ÙÂá³ÜË»å /

noun

  1. physical or mental weariness
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lassitude1

First recorded in 1525–35; from Latin ±ô²¹²õ²õ¾±³ÙÅ«»åŠ“weariness,†equivalent to lass(us) “weary†+ -i- connecting vowel + -³ÙÅ«»åÅ noun suffix; -i-, -tude
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lassitude1

C16: from Latin ±ô²¹²õ²õ¾±³ÙÅ«»åÅ, from lassus tired
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His tone, however, belied the lassitude of a man who increasingly struggles to hide his age behind all that makeup.

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There were moments during my screening at which I thought I was attending an exorcism; the movie makes you feel thrown by the power of cinema to shake us out of our lassitude.

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In a 1936 speech to young people, President Franklin Roosevelt, dismissing experts proclaiming 1930s youth as “lost†to anxiety, depression and lassitude, declared that young people were right to be unhappy.

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She taught at several schools, including Stanford University and Yale University, and regarded her experiences in the classroom not as a distraction from her poetry, but as a “prescription for lassitude.â€

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Not that they were hunted or killed, but many left the clinic from fear, and Farmer noted the “paralysis†and “lassitude†among those who stayed behind.

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