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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A state of sluggishness, inactivity, and apathy.
  2. n. A state of unconsciousness resembling deep sleep.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A state of prolonged inactivity or torpor; inertness of body or mind; sluggishness; dullness; stupor.
  2. n. Specifically, in pathology, a disorder of consciousness, which consists of prolonged and profound sleep, from which the patient may be momentarily aroused, but into which he quickly sinks again.
  3. n. The hibernation or winter sleep of an animal, or any other state of complete repose, as a period of summer lethargy observed in many insect-larvæ, the repose of many tropical animals during the dry season, etc.
  4. To make lethargic or dull.
  5. n. Same as litharge.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.
  2. n. A state of inaction or indifference.
  3. v. obsolete To lethargize.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
  2. n. weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
  3. n. inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

Etymologies

  1. From Latin lēthargia, from Ancient Greek ληθαργία (lēthargia, "drowsiness"), from λήθαργος (lēthargos, "forgetful, lethargic"), from λήθη (lēthē, "forgetfulness") + ἀργός (argos, "not working"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English letargie, from Old French, from Late Latin lēthārgia, from Greek lēthārgiā, from lēthārgos, forgetful : lēthē, forgetfulness + ārgos, idle (a-, without; see a-1 + ergon, work; see werg- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • burntsox An NPR commentator accented the second syllable, as if she were saying lethargic. I'd accept this from mere mortals.... but from NPR? Oct 26, 2008

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