lassitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue, languor, listlessness

   Rufus Dawes, though his eyelids would scarcely keep open, and a terrible lassitude almost paralysed his limbs, eagerly drank in the whispered sentence.

2. 2
   noun

   weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy

3. 3
   noun

   a feeling of lack of interest or energy

4. 4
   noun

   a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)

Etymology

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