spiritlessness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiritlessness
Noun
  • Reported symptoms include: vomiting, sudden weakness or lethargy, seizures, cardiac arrest, collapse, and foaming at the mouth.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Thyroid hormones drop, causing fatigue and lethargy, and reproductive hormones dip, which can lower libido and halt menstrual periods.
    Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • The book’s languor can be ponderous and vintage, more 20th century than 21st.
    Daniel Felsenthal, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
  • This languor expands in the velvety air.
    J.T. Townley, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The world does seem full of unhappiness and tragedy, much of it human-caused, either through outright cruelty or through the indolence of our illusions.
    Philip Metres July 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
  • Their waiter’s indolence meant a long wait even for menus, yet neither of them let drop a word of complaint.
    Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • And the torpor is reflected in DraftKings’ NBA title odds for next season, as of Wednesday.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025
  • In the mid-to-late ’70s, when New York was sunk into the torpor of potential economic ruin, the city was fabled in another way.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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