Synonyms for lethargy
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Noun
1. Apathy — A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely)…
apathy, torpor, lassitude, sluggishness, stupor, languor, indifference, inactivity, stupidity, slackness, phlegm, nonchalance, flatness, insensibility, stupefaction, inanition, torpidity, listlessness, numbness, inertness
Other
drowsiness, sleep, coma, trance, hypnotism, swoon, sleuth, lethargicness
Definitions
- n. 1
A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness.
Related words
- Word family
- lethargic
- Phrases
- negro lethargy
Forms
- Plural
- lethargies → apathies, torpors, lassitudes, sluggishnesses…
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The apathy of disease is a mental affection, a state of morbid indifference; lethargy is a morbid tendency to heavy and continued sleep, from which the patient may perhaps be momentarily aroused.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- apathy Apathy is a paralysis of the soul, an early death.
- lassitude We can't abandon our principles out of moral lassitude.
- sleep Your lack of sleep will catch up with you someday.
- coma Tom seems to have fallen into some kind of a coma.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| lethargy | rising | |
| apathy | falling | |
| torpor | rising | |
| sluggishness | falling | |
| lassitude | steady | |
| sleep | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- coma2
- 5 letters
- sleep1, swoon1
- 6 letters
- trance1, apathy3, stupor2, phlegm1, sleuth1, torpor2
- 7 letters
- languor
- 8 letters
- numbness2, flatness2
- 9 letters
- stupidity4, hypnotism4, slackness2, lassitude, inertness3, inanition, torpidity
- 10 letters
- inactivity5, drowsiness3
- 11 letters
- nonchalance3
- 12 letters
- indifference4, sluggishness3, listlessness, stupefaction
- 13 letters
- insensibility, lethargicness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (coma2 = 2 syllables).