0 the feeling of having no energy and enthusiasm and being unwilling to do anything needing effort:
A lack of iron in the body can lead to listlessness and a lack of concentration.
The children displayed the tell-tale listlessness of malnutrition.
There was a listlessness in the way he walked, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further.
Symptoms of kidney failure include vomiting, listlessness and lack of interest in food.
He will smoke his cigar and drink himself into listlessness.
The term lethargus was used to describe a contrasting condition, featuring listlessness, sleepiness, memory loss and dulling of the senses.
Sufferers presented with pallor, listlessness, dizziness, shortness of breath, severe fatigue, oedema, and circulatory changes, and were not dissimilar to miners' phthisis.
Examples include the influence of bias, prejudice and morally irrelevant desire, as well as fatigue, listlessness, impatience, anxiety and laziness.
For at least two years, her anxious parents fretted about her weight loss, listlessness and mood swings.
Such a condition, which strains natural instinct too severely, produces either listlessness or destructiveness.
