lethargy
noun
the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
lethargies
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pluralof lethargy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For the students from the Child School, who have varying forms of learning or social disabilities, the daring river exertion seemed to relieve them of whatever physical lethargies they had.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2011
Instances of parturition or delivery during sleep, lethargies, trances, and similar conditions are by no means uncommon.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Thus in my journey during those long hours I found it—agonies subsiding into lethargies, and these breaking again into frenzy.
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
It has long been used by the Chinese in cases of headaches, lethargies, convulsions, colics, &c.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
My lethargies have not dulled my delight in good books.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas
