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/lˈɛθərdʒi/ Listen

noun

Lethargy n. (pl. lethargies)

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

A state of inaction or indifference. "Europe lay then under a deep lethargy."

verb

Lethargy v. t. To lethargize. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Lethargy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the weight of an immeasurable loss had been almost beyond endurance to a man of his age and of his volcanic nature. His physician was soon at his side, and, with some degree of success, put forth all his skill to rally his exhausted patient. He at last succeeded in producing a certain degree of lethargy, which, in benumbing the brain, brought respite from ...

— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe

... moment, unmoving. The feeling was there again, like a scene waiting only to be gazed at directly to be perceived. It was as though a great wisdom lay at the edge of understanding. If he rested quietly it would all come to him. Yet always, when his mind lost its sleep-induced lethargy, the moment of ...

— Monkey On His Back • Charles V. De Vet

... the cry of alarm, and the warning passed unheeded. But at last it was listened to, when a new outburst of aggressive activity on the part of the Turks for a while roused the maritime nations of the Mediterranean from their lethargy, and then a glorious page was added to the story ...

— Famous Sea Fights - From Salamis to Tsu-Shima • John Richard Hale

... put our lethargy and its apologists to shame. Look at the author with pallid cheek and fevered brow, half starving in an attic, perfecting his style, polishing his periods. There is the actor, haggard, jaded, toiling for hours ...

— The Young Priest's Keepsake • Michael Phelan

... gladdened, and, as I lay on my bunk listening to the merry crackle of the wood fire, I was in a purring lethargy of ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

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