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listlessness|ˈlɪstlɪsnɪs|
[-ness.]
The condition or quality of being listless; † (a) want of relish for some particular object or pursuit (const. of, to) (obs.); (b) languid indifference as to one's surroundings, or as to what one has to do.
1646W. Jenkyn Remora 23 There is in the heart, a naturall listlesnes [pr. listnesnes] from, and opposition unto a right reformation. 1693Locke Educ. §119. 146 If listlesness and dreaming be his natural Disposition. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. vii. 67, I have..A Third Part of Priest-craft in my Head, which perhaps may come abroad and take the Air, if not prevented by my Laziness, Listlesness, or Old Age. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Malt Liquor, Nauseousness at the Stomach, and Lassitude of [sic] Listlessness to Motion. 1776G. Mason in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 180 Ill health, and a certain listlessness inseparable from it, have prevented my writing..so often. 1795Montford Castle II. 282 His lovely mistress..without whom felicity was nothing but listlessness and quietism. 1842Pusey Crisis Eng. Ch. 8 The general listlessness which crept over the Church during the last century. 1869Seeley Lect. & Ess. ii. 54 The disposition to listlessness which belongs to the military character. |