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sluggishness
[sluhg-ish] 
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sluggishness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apathy |
| Synonyms: | drowsiness, fatigue, idleness, inaction, languor, laziness, lethargy |
| Main Entry: | idleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laziness, inaction |
| Synonyms: | dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, inactivity, indolence, inertia, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
| Antonyms: | action, ambition, busyness, diligence, employment, hustle, industry, labor, occupation, work |
| Main Entry: | inertia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disinclination to move; lifelessness |
| Synonyms: | apathy, deadness, drowsiness, dullness, idleness, immobility, immobilization, inactivity, indolence, languor, lassitude, laziness, lethargy, listlessness, oscitancy, paralysis, passivity, sloth, sluggishness, stillness, stupor, torpidity, torpor, unresponsiveness |
| Antonyms: | activity, animation, life, liveliness, moving |
| Main Entry: | languor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lethargy |
| Synonyms: | apathy, dullness, fatigue, idleness, inaction, inactivity, laziness, listlessness, sluggishness, tiredness, torpor, weakness |
| Main Entry: | lassitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lethargy |
| Synonyms: | apathy, dullness, exhaustion, fatigue, idleness, inaction, inactivity, languor, laziness, listlessness, sleepiness, sluggishness, tiredness, torpor, weakness, weariness |
| Main Entry: | laziness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unwillingness to work, be active |
| Synonyms: | apathy, dilatoriness, do-nothingness, dormancy, dreaminess, drowsiness, dullness, faineance, faineancy, heaviness, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languorousness, laxness, leadenness, leisureliness, lethargy, listlessness, neglectfulness, negligence, otioseness, otiosity, passivity, remissness, slackness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, stolidity, supineness, tardiness, torpescence, torpidness, weariness |
| Antonyms: | activity, diligence, hard work, industriousness, industry, liveliness |
| Main Entry: | sloth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laziness |
| Synonyms: | do-nothingness, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, lackadaisicalness, languidness, laxness, lethargy, listlessness, slackness, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, supineness |
| Main Entry: | torpor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lethargy |
| Synonyms: | apathy, disinterest, dormancy, drowsiness, dullness, idleness, impassivity, inaction, inactivity, languor, laziness, lifelessness, listlessness, passiveness, sleepiness, sloth, slowness, sluggishness, slumber, stupor, torpidity, torpidness |
| Main Entry: | slowness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
| Synonyms: | apathy, indifference, languidness, lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, unwillingness |
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