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Definition: Lassitude |
LassitudeNoun1. A state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness). 2. A feeling of lack of interest or energy. 3. Weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lassitude" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Lassitude \Las"si*tude\, noun. [Latin expression lassitudo, from lassus faint, weary; akin to English late: compare to the French expression lassitude. See Late.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | Slightly weaker. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Health | Weakness; exhaustion. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: LassitudeSynonyms: inanition (n), languor (n), lethargy (n), listlessness (n), sluggishness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fatigue | Noun: fatigue; weariness; yawning, drowsiness; lassitude, tiredness, fatigation, exhaustion; sweat; dyspnoea. |
Weariness | Noun: weariness, defatigation; lassitude; (fatigue); drowsiness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lassitude |
| Non-English Usage: "Lassitude" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (dullness, lassitude, ponderosity, tiredness, weariness), Portuguese (lassitude, wearniness). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Lassitude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lassitude" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lassitude | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lassitude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lodhje (emaciation, fatigue, harassment, strain, straining, tiredness, Tucker, weakening, weariness), plogështi (angularity, apathy, idleness, inaction, indolence, inertia, languor, phlegm, sloth, tardiness, torpor), kapitje (languor). (various references) | |
Arabic | كلال, كسل (drowse, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, languor, laziness, lethargy, sloth, slothful, sluggard, sluggishness), تعب (failure, fatigue, go flat out, grow tired, languishment, languor, pan, punish, stress, take trouble, tell on, tire, tiredness, toil, try, tucker, weariness, weary), تراخ (inaction, indolence, languor). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | умора (distress, fatigue, weariness), апатия (accidie, acedia, apathy, indifference, insensibility, languor, torpor), изтощение (depletion, distress, enervation, exhaustion, fag, fatigue, frazzle, prostration, strain, weariness). (various references) | |
Czech | únava (fatigue, tiredness, weariness). (various references) | |
Danish | lassitudo, træthed (fatigue), sloevhed (drowsiness, torpor), mathed. (various references) | |
Dutch | lusteloosheid (apathy), lassitudo, vermoeidheid (fatigue), doffigheid. (various references) | |
Farsi | تب سبک , سستی تب , سستی (Droop, Inaction, Indolence, Insecurity, Sloth), خماری (Orgiastic), رخوت (Indolence, Lethargy, Paralysis), بی میلی (Disaffection, Dismay, Distaste, Grudge, Reluctance). (various references) | |
Finnish | voimattomuus (infirmity, lack of strength, powerlessness, weakness), väsymys (exhaustion, fatigue, tiredness, weariness), raukeus (faintness, languor). (various references) | |
French | lassitude. (various references) | |
German | mattigkeit (faintness, languidness, languor, limpness, weakness, weariness). (various references) | |
Greek | ατονία (debility, languor, laxity, listlessness, nervelessness, prostration, tonelessness, weakness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עיפות (fatigue, languishment, languor, tiredness, weariness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fáradtság (fatigue, languidity, tire, tiredness, weariness). (various references) | |
Italian | stanchezza (fatigue, tiredness, weariness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 無気力 (lethargic). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | むきりょく (lethargic). (various references) | |
Manx | skeeys (fatigue, tiredness, weariness, wearisomeness), meillid (adagio, infirmity, listlessness, scragginess, slowness, weakness), lhiastid (diffidence, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indisposition, indolence, languidness, languor, laziness, reluctance, sloth, slowness, sluggishness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | assitudelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lassitude (wearniness). (various references) | |
Romanian | lâncezealã (apathy, atony, dullness, flatness, languishment, torpor, weakness), obosealã (fag, fatigue, languor, tedium, tiredness, weariness), moleşealã (flabbiness, slackness, torpor). (various references) | |
Russian | усталость (fatigue, tiredness, weariness), вялость (apathy, atony, flabbiness, inertia, inertness, languor, lethargy, limpness, listlessness, wilt). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zamor (fatigue), umor (fatigue, tiredness, weariness). (various references) | |
Spanish | lasitud. (various references) | |
Swedish | tröghet (inaction, inactivity, inertia, inertness, languor, slowness, tardiness), slöhet (aparthy, apathy, bluntness, dullness, indolence, inertia, languor, laziness, lethargy, sloth, spend, torpidity, torpor), matthet (dullness, faintness, languor, tarnish, weakness). (various references) | |
Thai | ความอ่อนเพลีย. (various references) | |
Turkish | yorgunluk (exhaustion, fag, fatigue, staleness, tiredness, weariness), kesiklik (discontinuity, hysteresis, interruption), halsizlik (debility, grogginess, infirmity, languor, prostration, sinking, weakness), bitkinlik (deadness, exhaustion, fag, fatigue, frazzle, languor, over-fatigue, prostration, staleness, weariness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | утома, кволість (ailing, exility, frailty, washiness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự uể oải (faintness, languidness), sự mệt nhọc (tiredness), sự mệt mỏi (fatigue, weariedness, weariness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | languor, lassitudine, lassitudo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lassitude": lassitudes. (additional references) | |
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"Lassitude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lascitude, lasitude, lassiitude, lassitube, lassiude, lasssitude, lasstitude, lssitude. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "lassitude" (pronounced 'Las"si*tude'): Acerbitude, Acritude, Altitude, Amaritude, Amplitude, Anxietude, Aptitude, Assuetude, Attitude, Beatitude, Certitude, Claritude, Colatitude, Consuetude, Crassitude, Crebritude, Decrepitude, Definitude, Fessitude, finitude, Firmitude, fortitude, gratitude, habitude, hebetude, inaptitude, incertitude, ineptitude, inexactitude, infinitude, ingratitude, inquietude, Lenitude, Lentitude, Limpitude, Lippitude, magnitude, Mansuetude, Mollitude, Multitude, Necessitude, Nigritude, Overmultitude, Pinguitude, Platitude, Plenitude, Promptitude, Pulchritude, Quietude, rectitude. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: dualists, duelists. | |
-2 letters: aidless, audiles, auldest, dauties, delists, desalts, details, dilates, dilutes, disseat, dualist, duelist, salties, saluted, salutes, studies, taluses, tissual, tissued, tuladis, tussled. | |
-3 letters: adieus, adults, aisled, aisles, asides, audile, audits, daises, dassie, dautie, deasil, deists, delist, deltas, desalt, desist, detail, dilate, dilute, distal, disuse, dulias, dulses, duties, ideals, idlest, islets, issued. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: feudalists, lassitudes, squalidest. | |
+2 letters: andalusites, dissimulate, distasteful, simulcasted, stridulates, subdialects, sustainedly. | |
+3 letters: dissimulated, dissimulates, vasculitides. | |
+4 letters: distastefully, industrialise, nucleotidases, unassimilated, unestablished. | |
+5 letters: disarticulates, documentalists, foundationless, idolatrousness, industrialised, industrialises, industrializes, outlandishness, superdiplomats, superinsulated, ultradistances. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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