listlessness

[ list-lis-nis ]
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noun
  1. the state or condition of having little or no interest in anything: When overwhelmed by trauma, you can fall into a state of torpor or listlessness, where you can't even bring yourself to care that you don't care anymore.

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How to use listlessness in a sentence

  • Nevertheless his habitual listlessness was not disturbed, and he pursued his peculiar train of reflections.

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