listlessness — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The state of being listless; apathetic indifference; lethargy.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

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   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.

   This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of every thing’s being dull and insipid about the house!— I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not—for a few weeks at least.

   […] lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually flitting through it.

Noun

1. a feeling of lack of interest or energy

   Synonyms

   languorlassitude

   Broader terms

   apathy

2. inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy

   Synonyms

   torpiditytorpidnesstorpor

   Broader terms

   passivitypassiveness