The term lethargus was used to describe a contrasting condition, featuringlistlessness, sleepiness, memory loss and dulling of the senses.
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Sufferers presented with pallor,listlessness, dizziness, shortness of breath, severe fatigue, oedema, and circulatory changes, and were not dissimilar to miners' phthisis.
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Examples include the influence of bias, prejudice and morally irrelevant desire, as well as fatigue,listlessness, impatience, anxiety and laziness.
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For at least two years, her anxious parents fretted about her weight loss,listlessnessand mood swings.
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Such a condition, which strains natural instinct too severely, produces eitherlistlessnessor destructiveness.
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Listlessness, carelessness, and stupidity are all much cheaper than proper provision for health and safety at work.
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That is the explanation of the remarkablelistlessnesswhich he exhibits.
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Perhaps the problem is moral poverty,listlessnessand no sense of direction.
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From the first we were struck more by the aspect of depression among the unemployed and theirlistlessnessthan by any other signs of poverty.
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We know that thelistlessnessand the apathy which it causes is terrifying.
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One is not surprised, when one remembers what are the conditions existing in many parts of our great cities, that thatlistlessness, that lack of adventure, should exist.
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Listlessnessis disastrous to vigorous life.
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Hookworms were popularly known as the germ of laziness because they producedlistlessnessand weakness in the people they infested.
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It is often accompanied by pronounced diarrhoea, dehydration, oedema, polydipsia, anaemia,listlessnessand weight loss.
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It is translated to apatheticlistlessness; depression without joy.
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