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[ UK /lˈæsɪtjˌuːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a feeling of lack of interest or energy
  2. a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
  3. weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy

How To Use lassitude In A Sentence

  • There may be lassitude in the federal response to natural disaster, but that is not the same as culpability, and still less is it culpability for the failings the critics invariably cite.
  • Moral lassitude is not equal to murder of innocents.
  • As my lassitude, depression and memory loss grew more pronounced, we decided that we needed to drastically change our lives.
  • -- Fever may be accompanied by pain especially of the the head and loins; a sense of heaviness or general lassitude; deficiency of either secretion, or of all of them; dryness of skin; thirst; nausia; scanty and high colored urine; delirium; constipation; jactation; &c. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
  • They're conducive, instead, to lassitude, resentment, and political irresponsibility.
  • Reading causes lassitude and wearies us tremendously.
  • a piece of moral turpitude -- or at best a sign of lassitude, stupidity, and Toryism; because it means that one's mind is made up and that one has some dull theory which life and the thoughts of others may confirm if they will, but must not modify: from which deadly kind of incrustation may common-sense and human interest deliver us. The Silent Isle
  • Shareholders are blaming the company's problems on the lassitude of the managing director.
  • Rotten made it clear that there was another kind of fun that could be had, a forbidden fun that was riskier and more dangerous because it aggressively put the lie to the self-congratulatory lassitude of the 1970s.
  • After five weeks in combat these soldiers sunk into a state of extreme exhaustion and lassitude.
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