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Lassitude

A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness.

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Apathy 76% connected

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a…

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Torpidity 76% connected

Same as Torpidness.

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Torpor 76% connected

Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

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Weakness 76% connected

The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.

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Hebetude 76% connected

Dullness; stupidity.

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Inanition 92% connected

The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either f…

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Languor 92% connected

A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

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Lethargy 92% connected

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

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Slackness 92% connected

The quality or state of being slack.

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an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it

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Defunctness noun · 78% connection

no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species"

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Abirritation noun · 78% connection

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, body, mind, voluntary, functions.
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Action noun · 78% connection

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body a…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, body, mind, voluntary, functions.
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Automatical adjective · 78% connection

Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions.

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Deadness noun · 78% connection

The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference;…

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Debility adjective · 78% connection

The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.

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Difficulty noun · 78% connection

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task o…

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Distributed data processing noun · 78% connection

data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities

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Dyingness noun · 78% connection

The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment.

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Easily adverb · 78% connection

With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

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Ennui noun · 78% connection

A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.

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Essay noun · 78% connection

An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a frie…

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