listlessness

[ list-lis-nis ]

noun

1. the state or condition of having little or no interest in anything:

   When overwhelmed by trauma, you can fall into a state of torpor or listlessness, where you can't even bring yourself to care that you don't care anymore.

Word History and Origins

Origin of listlessness¹

listless ( def ) + -ness ( def )

Example Sentences

Marie accepted without enthusiasm—and her listlessness was not lost over forty miles of telephone wire.

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But the only change that came over Chloe was increasing listlessness of mind and fatigue of body.

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But inaction might bring listlessness and despondency, and in their train follows disease.

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Officers and men, used though they were to the heat of the Tropics, were reduced to a state of perspiring listlessness.

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Nevertheless his habitual listlessness was not disturbed, and he pursued his peculiar train of reflections.

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