lassitude

/ˌlæsəˈtud/

Other forms: lassitudes

If you are feeling lassitude, you're weary and just can't be bothered. Couch potatoes make lassitude into an art form.

Lassitude might sound like latitude, but the two words don't mean the same thing. Latitude describes the distance of a particular location from the equator. Lassitude is the weariness you'd experience after attempting to run a marathon around the equator. Lassitude can also describe a lack of interest, like deciding you'd rather lie on your couch than run that marathon along the equator.

Definitions of lassitude

1. noun

   a feeling of lack of interest or energy
   synonyms: languor, listlessness

   type of:

   apathy

   an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
2. noun

   weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
   synonyms: inanition, lethargy, slackness

   type of:

   weakness

   the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain
3. noun

   a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
   synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness

   types:

   hebetude

   mental lethargy or dullness

   type of:

   torpidity, torpor

   a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility