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Lethargy

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

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Narrower term 1

Hebetude 76% connected

Dullness; stupidity.

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Broader term 5

Inactivity 76% connected

The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

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Inertia 76% connected

That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direc…

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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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Languorous 74% connected

Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.

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Languorous 74% connected

Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.

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Flatness 92% connected

The quality or state of being flat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lassitude 92% connected

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; deb…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Phlegm 92% connected

One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slackness 92% connected

The quality or state of being slack.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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