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listlessness

/list-lis-nis/US // ˈlɪst lɪs nɪs //

无精打采,怅然若失,无精打彩,怅惘

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.

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Examples

  • One feature all these photos have in common is the haunted eyes above masks, expressing the range of emotions humanity is capable of feeling, from listlessness to devastation.

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

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

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

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

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