LASSITUDE Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

Q: How does the noun 'lassitude' contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of lassitude are languor , lethargy , stupor , and torpor . While all these words mean "physical or mental inertness," lassitude stresses listlessness or indifference resulting from fatigue or poor health. // a depression marked by lassitude

Q: Where would 'languor' be a reasonable alternative to 'lassitude'?

Although the words languor and lassitude have much in common, languor suggests inertia induced by an enervating climate or illness or love. // languor induced by a tropical vacation

Q: When could 'lethargy' be used to replace 'lassitude'?

The words lethargy and lassitude can be used in similar contexts, but lethargy implies such drowsiness or aversion to activity as is induced by disease, injury, or drugs. // months of lethargy followed my accident

Q: When might 'stupor' be a better fit than 'lassitude'?

While the synonyms stupor and lassitude are close in meaning, stupor implies a deadening of the mind and senses by shock, narcotics, or intoxicants. // lapsed into an alcoholic stupor

Q: When would 'torpor' be a good substitute for 'lassitude'?

In some situations, the words torpor and lassitude are roughly equivalent. However, torpor implies a state of suspended animation as of hibernating animals but may suggest merely extreme sluggishness. // a once alert mind now in a torpor

lassitude

noun

ˈla-sə-ˌtüd

Definition of lassitude

as in exhaustion

a complete depletion of energy or strength our lassitude was such that we couldn't even be bothered to get more soda from the fridge

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as in boredom

physical or mental inertness hot, humid summer days marked by lassitude and a wish to do nothing but sit in the air conditioning

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How does the noun lassitude contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of lassitude are languor, lethargy, stupor, and torpor. While all these words mean "physical or mental inertness," lassitude stresses listlessness or indifference resulting from fatigue or poor health.

a depression marked by lassitude

Where would languor be a reasonable alternative to lassitude?

Although the words languor and lassitude have much in common, languor suggests inertia induced by an enervating climate or illness or love.

languor induced by a tropical vacation

When could lethargy be used to replace lassitude?

The words lethargy and lassitude can be used in similar contexts, but lethargy implies such drowsiness or aversion to activity as is induced by disease, injury, or drugs.

months of lethargy followed my accident

When might stupor be a better fit than lassitude?

While the synonyms stupor and lassitude are close in meaning, stupor implies a deadening of the mind and senses by shock, narcotics, or intoxicants.

lapsed into an alcoholic stupor

When would torpor be a good substitute for lassitude?

In some situations, the words torpor and lassitude are roughly equivalent. However, torpor implies a state of suspended animation as of hibernating animals but may suggest merely extreme sluggishness.

a once alert mind now in a torpor

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Recent Examples of lassitude Stranger by the Lake is a bookend of sorts to La Piscine, as both films seem to condemn their characters, and by extension, the counterculture surrounding them, to a lassitude incapable of any moral authority. — Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025 The result of this lassitude is that cars still rule the streets. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025 Wakefield-Scurr’s discoveries have helped rupture the long-standing lassitude. — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025 After so many episodes, there is no lassitude and the Mbappé saga continues to enliven conversations in France’s sports bars. — Samuel Petrequin, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for lassitude

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Security by exhaustion The internet is held together with shoestring and bubblegum.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
Change fatigue is a state of exhaustion workers may experience after going through many changes at their employer.

— Sarah Jackson, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of exhaustion

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Cooke samples an absorbing range of hoaxes, from the college students who convinced the world that an imaginary Scotsman had invented the electric toaster to the Chinese housewife who fabricated an entire war out of boredom.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
And from that boredom, a different kind of will, the willfulness that accompanies a need to destroy that happiness.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of boredom

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Indeed, even after modern jeans were invented in the late 19th century, denim continued to be used to make such apparel as work jackets, prison uniforms, naval fatigues, and jumpsuits.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
But many live with fatigue, weakness, brain fog and other symptoms for months or years before a deficiency is caught.

— Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of fatigue

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His Envita medical records from this time detail his lethargy, his cough and his precipitous drop in weight.

— Trisha Thadani Kirsten Potter Tanya Pérez Devin Murphy, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Phrasemaking is perhaps no contribution to the intellectual heritage of the race, but phrasemakers do snap us out of lethargy, and frequently out of ingrowing pessimism, which may be worse than frenzy.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of lethargy

Noun

However, the threat posed by bounty hunter Paladin (Todd Stashwick) and the prospect of a reunion with his son conspire to draw him out of his stupor.

— Tom Bailey, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026
The Rams’ decision to arrive in Melbourne the day before the game appeared to leave them in a stupor.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of stupor

Noun

The early pages of The Waves are liquid with green light, the garden or grounds a place of languor and surprise, sudden kisses, bright animal eyes, solitary daydream and jealousy.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026
Your morning of chores or physical activity has imbued you with a sense of achievement and a faint, pleasurable languor.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026

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