lassitude

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lassitude

  • /ˈlæsɪˌtjuːd/ UK
  • /ˈlæsɪˌtud/ US

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French lassitude, from Latin lassitūdō (“faintness, weariness”), from lassus (“faint, weary”), perhaps for *ladtus, and thus akin to English late.

noun lassitudes

  1. countable, uncountable Lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue, languor, listlessness Rufus Dawes, though his eyelids would scarcely keep open, and a terrible lassitude almost paralysed his limbs, eagerly drank in the whispered sentence.

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noun lethargy

Españollasitud
हिन्दीअवसाद avsād, तंद्रा tandrā
Portuguêslassidão
DeutschMattigkeit, Müdigkeit
Русскийуста́лость ustálostʹ, утомле́ние utomlénije, апа́тия apátija

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@misc{lassitude_2026,
  title = {lassitude},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lassitude},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}