Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of enervating, or the state of being enervated; reduction or weakening of strength; effeminacy.
Wiktionary
- n. Act of enervating; debilitation.
- n. State of being enervated; debility.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of weakening, or reducing strength.
- n. The state of being weakened; effeminacy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. serious weakening and loss of energy
- n. surgical removal of a nerve
- n. lack of vitality
Examples
“But after a couple of hours, in the neighbourhood of eleven, when it may be anything from 110 to 120 degrees in the shade, a kind of enervation sets in.”
“She does not see, of course, that the new movement among women is a spiritual movement – that women, whose work has been taken away from them, are now beating at new doors, crying to be let in that they may take part in new labors, and thus save womanhood from the enervation which is threatening it.”
“You seem to think that it is purposely unsatisfactory, or rather dissatisfactory: but it seems to me to proceed from a kind of enervation in De Quincey.”
“Under surrealism, price determination will be based on the toss of a two-headed cloud during the hours of 3:00am to eleventy-never, while money will be different kinds of soup, ranging from New England barbed wire to cream of enervation.”
The Huffington Post: Spencer Green: Capitalism to Be Replaced By Surrealism
“There must be a reason for all this enervation, and it is not the Aintree course, which has been eased over the years.”
The Guardian: Tiger Woods goes into new era as same old charmless man
“They had been warned by Mark Hall of the enervation of the south, and were bound north for their blanket climate.”
“Here is a climate where a man can work three hundred and sixty-five days in the year without the slightest hint of enervation, and where for three hundred and sixty-five nights he must perforce sleep under blankets.”
“Jabri's concepts could well be stifled by the enervation of seeking relevant permissions.”
“Competition keeps us alert, in fighting trim; it's the creative-destructive cure for the enervation that steals over capitalism now and again.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Teitelman: Transactions: Dec. 13, 2010
“Seeing that the music kept the creeping enervation at bay, even Gragelouth made an attempt to join in the singing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘enervation’.
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against nature
perambulator, dross, elephantine, unctuous, saccharine, sacerdotal, torrefaction, heliotrope, prostration, peremptory, lava grey, mouse grey and 3 more...
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Greg's List
precarious, transient, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, transitoriness, volatility, caducity, span, interregnum, effervescent, mine and 63 more...
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Appellations
States of ment.
off kilter, fervent, nonchalant, exuberant, turbid, verbose, eloquent, vicarious, gallivant, orotund, amalgamate, accentuate and 285 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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srboisvert's Words
couverture, poffertjes, naif, endermatic, prepense, aspic, otalgia, curettage,, florid, piffling, pillock, mow and 164 more...
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Post-GRE Words For Others
abstruse, supercilious, refractory, enormity, suborn, tendentious, prolix, factitious, enervation, eponym, supervene, sententious and 25 more...
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"ion"
agglutination, Contraction, alleviation, mitigation, Consolation, disillusion, disposition, extroversion, introversion, invocation, gumption, compunction and 13 more...
Tweets
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Prolagus I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
(Arthur Rimbaud) Mar 12, 2008