different between sluggishness vs listlessness
sluggishness
English
Etymology
sluggish +? -ness
Noun
sluggishness (usually uncountable, plural sluggishnesses)
- The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
- The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
- 2012, Javier Solana, 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.
- 2012, Javier Solana, Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty?:
Antonyms
- (property of being sluggish): nimbleness
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listlessness
English
Etymology
From listless +? -ness.
Noun
listlessness (countable and uncountable, plural listlessnesses)
- The state of being listless; apathetic indifference; lethargy.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Letter the First,[1]
- 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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 35,[2]
- […] 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.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Letter the First,[1]
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