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A state of bodily or mental weariness with little energy or inclination to act.
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- summer lassitude
- overcome lassitude
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A heavy lassitude settled over the household in the afternoon heat.
She mistook her lassitude for indifference until she had slept.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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