lassitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A feeling of tiredness and lack of energy or interest.

   The heat left everyone in a state of lassitude by mid-afternoon.

Borrowed from French lassitude, from Latin lassitūdō (“faintness, weariness”), from lassus (“faint, weary”), perhaps for *ladtus, and thus akin to English late.

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