lethargy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English litargie, from Medieval Latin litargia, from Late Latin lēthārgia, borrowed from Ancient Greek ληθᾱργῐ́ᾱ (lēthārgĭ́ā, “drowsiness”), from λήθᾱργος (lḗthārgos, “forgetful, lethargic”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, adjectival suffix).
Base: λήθᾱργος
Affixes: -ῐ́ᾱ
Inflected forms:
form: lethargies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Europe lay then under a deep lethargy.
Gradually the darkened room seems to emerge from its shadows; familiar objects strike upon the senses—and memory is never so terribly distinct as on its first reviving from such momentary lethargy.
As already indicated, timekeeping is very poor. Point-to-point times are not kept, even with a clear road, and whilst fast running has never been a feature of the route because of the large number of junctions and speed restrictions, this Sunday night lethargy is hard to explain.
Yakovlev, one of the architects of the reforms put in place by Mikhail Gorbachev, says he too is "amazed" at the government's lethargy.
The increase in mining stocks helped the FTSE 100 shake off some earlier lethargy and close 9.8 points higher at 6270.8, despite the disappointment of unchanged UK interest rates.
gloss: A condition characterized by extreme fatigue or drowsiness, deep unresponsiveness, or prolonged sleep patterns.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This Apoplexie is (as I take it) a kind of Lethargie, a sleeping of the blood, a horson Tingling.
So in order to avoid unpleasant side effects like lethargy and sexual dysfunction, most recent trials also gave men testosterone supplements.
Related words: encephalitis lethargica
lethargic
Lethe
Derived words: African lethargy
lethargied
negro lethargy
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: خُمُول
roman: ḵumūl
lang: Armenian
word: կեղծամահ
roman: keġcamah
lang: Armenian
word: լեթարգիա
roman: letʻargia
lang: Armenian
word: մահաքուն
roman: mahakʻun
lang: Bulgarian
word: вялост
roman: vjalost
lang: Bulgarian
word: отпуснатост
roman: otpusnatost
lang: Catalan
word: letargia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 疲勞 /疲劳
roman: píláo
lang: Czech
word: letargie
lang: Danish
word: letargi
lang: Dutch
word: lusteloosheid
lang: Dutch
word: futloosheid
lang: Dutch
word: slaapzucht
lang: Dutch
word: lethargie
lang: Esperanto
word: letargio
lang: Finnish
word: letargia
lang: French
word: léthargie
lang: German
word: Lethargie
lang: German
word: Trägheit
lang: German
word: Schlafsucht
lang: Greek
word: λήθαργος
roman: líthargos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: λήθαργος
roman: lḗthargos
lang: Indonesian
word: letargi
lang: Japanese
word: 疲労
roman: hirō
lang: Latin
word: torpedo
lang: Latin
word: veternus
lang: Macedonian
word: исцр́пеност
roman: iscŕpenost
lang: Malay
word: kelesuan
lang: Malay
word: letargi
lang: Māori
word: tīrohea
lang: Norwegian
word: letargi
lang: Persian
word: لتارژی
roman: letārži
lang: Portuguese
word: letargia
lang: Romanian
word: letargie
lang: Russian
word: вя́лость
roman: vjálostʹ
lang: Russian
word: уста́лость
roman: ustálostʹ
lang: Russian
word: утомле́ние
roman: utomlénije
lang: Spanish
word: letargo
lang: Spanish
word: aletargamiento
lang: Swedish
word: letargi
lang: Turkish
word: letarji
lang: Turkish
word: yorgunluk
lang: Turkish
word: yorguntu