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lassitude
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French lassitude, from Latin lassit?d? (“faintness, weariness”), from lassus (“faint, weary”), perhaps for *ladtus, and thus akin to English late.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?læs??tju?d/
Noun
lassitude (countable and uncountable, plural lassitudes)
- Lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue.
- Listlessness or languor.
Quotations
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter VII
- Rufus Dawes, though his eyelids would scarcely keep open, and a terrible lassitude almost paralysed his limbs, eagerly drank in the whispered sentence.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 25
- "Then it's No, darling?" he said at last.
- She gave a gesture of lassitude. She was exhausted.
- "The studio is yours. Everything belongs to you. If you want to bring him here, how can I prevent you?"
- 2004, "Is Slacking the Only Way to Survive the Office?," The Scotsman (Edinburgh), 16 Aug,
- In order to appear busy, one should pace around the office clutching files.... The best part of this ancient ritual is that it tends to make one's colleagues look away—just in case you and your papers are going to interrupt their own lassitude.
- 2004, Rob Hughes, "Soccer: The Olympic Flame Running Low on Fuel," International Herald Tribune (Paris), 11 Aug.,
- At Euro 2004 and the 2002 World Cup, Blatter commented this week, many stars were physically and mentally exhausted, and left an aftertaste of nonchalance and lassitude.
Translations
Further reading
- lassitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lassitude in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- lassitude at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Etymology
From Latin lassit?d? (“faintness, weariness”), from lassus (“faint, weary”).
Noun
lassitude f (plural lassitudes)
- lassitude
Further reading
- “lassitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- dualistes
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heaviness
English
Etymology
From Middle English hevinesse, from Old English hefi?nes (“heaviness”). Equivalent to heavy +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?v?n?s/
Noun
heaviness (countable and uncountable, plural heavinesses)
- The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
- (archaic) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness; low spirits.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- First got with guile, and then preseru'd with dread, / And after spent with pride and lauishnesse, / Leauing behind them griefe and heauinesse.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- (obsolete) Drowsiness.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[1]:
- Miranda: The strangeness of your story put / Heaviness in me.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[1]:
Translations
Anagrams
- evanishes
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