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lethargy

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1. lethargy - Noun

2. lethargy - Verb

Meaning

Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.

A state of inaction or indifference.

To lethargize.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. Michel de Montaigne

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all. Ralph Steadman

What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shake us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place. Albert Schweitzer

What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest. Joseph Addison

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character. James Joyce

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