sluggishness

sluggishness
n
1. languor, languidness, laggardness, Archaic. languishment; inertia, inactivity, stagnation, torpor, supineness, Archaic. lenitude, (in the Middle East) kef; lifelessness, inanimateness, inanimation, spiritlessness, listlessness, apathy, indifference, Inf. the blahs; phlegm, lethargy, heaviness, lumpishness, dullness, hebetudinousness; somnolence, sleepiness, drowsiness, doziness.
2. laziness, idleness, indolence, sloth, slothfulness, acedia, faineance, otiosity, do-nothingness; unindus-triousness, unenterprisingness, unambitiousness, want or lack of ambition or enterprise, nonaggressiveness; lackadaisicalness, insouciance, pococurantism; shift-lessness, worthlessness, good-for-nothingness.

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