Listlessness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Listless \List"less\, a. [OE. listles, lustles. See {Lust}.]
     Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless;
     spiritless. " A listless unconcern." --Thomson.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain.


                                                    --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           I was listless, and desponding.          --Swift.
  
     Syn: Heedless; careless; indifferent; vacant; uninterested;
          languid; spiritless; supine; indolent. --
          {List"less*ly}, adv. -- {List"less*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  listlessness
       n 1: a feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: {languor}, {lassitude}]
       2: inactivity resulting from torpidity and lack of vigor or
          energy [syn: {torpidity}, {torpidness}, {torpor}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "listlessness":
     accidia, acedia, adynamia, aloofness, anemia, apathy, ataraxia,
     ataraxy, atony, benumbedness, blah, blah feeling, blahs,
     bloodlessness, boredom, cachexia, cachexy, carelessness,
     casualness, comatoseness, cowardice, debilitation, debility,
     detachment, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, disregard,
     disregardfulness, drowsiness, dullness, easygoingness, enervation,
     ennui, etiolation, faintness, fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness,
     flaccidity, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness,
     hopelessness, impassiveness, impassivity, impotence, inanimation,
     inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference,
     indifferentism, indifferentness, indiscrimination, inexcitability,
     insouciance, intellectual inertia, jadedness, lack of affect,
     lack of appetite, lack of interest, lackadaisicalness, languidness,
     languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor,
     lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, mindlessness, negligence,
     nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy, passiveness, passivity, phlegm,
     phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism,
     prostration, recklessness, regardlessness, resignation,
     resignedness, satedness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness,
     sluggishness, softness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness,
     spiritlessness, spunklessness, stolidity, strengthlessness,
     stupefaction, stupor, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude,
     torpor, unanxiousness, unconcern, uninquisitiveness,
     uninterestedness, unmindfulness, unsolicitousness, weakliness,
     weakness, weariness, withdrawal, withdrawnness, world-weariness