Lethargy is a dull sluggishness with no will to move. A feeling of lethargy, sink into lethargy, shake off the lethargy.
It is a symptom as well as a mood and is one of the first things a doctor asks about, since it accompanies almost every illness. The Greek is built on Lethe, the river of forgetting in the underworld.
1nounlethargyA dull sluggishness with no will to move.
“The heat filled us with lethargy, and we spent the afternoon lying on the sofa.”
lethargy is a sluggishness.
Greek lethargia means drowsiness, from lethe, forgetfulness, the river of the underworld.
Proto-Indo-European
*leh₂-
Ancient Greek
ληθᾱργῐ́ᾱ — drowsiness
Latin
lēthārgia
Medieval Latin
litargia
Middle English
litargie
English, today
lethargy
From Middle English litargie, from Medieval Latin litargia, from Latin lēthārgia, borrowed from Ancient Greek ληθᾱργῐ́ᾱ (“drowsiness”), from λήθᾱργος + -ῐ́ᾱ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA