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Definition of Spiritlessness
1. Noun. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally.
Generic synonyms: Passiveness, Passivity
Derivative terms: Apathetic, Apathetic, Indifferent, Numb, Spiritless, Spiritless
Definition of Spiritlessness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being spiritless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spiritlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiritlessness
Literary usage of Spiritlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"Only the spiritlessness of our present depression blinds us to the clear intimations
of our reason that in the course of a few generations every little ..."
2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... moods bring a sense of abasement and humiliation, which sometimes seems like
a degree of complacency to all that comes, suggesting spiritlessness. ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... moods bring a sense of abasement and humiliation, which sometimes seems like
a degree of complacency to all that comes, suggesting- spiritlessness. ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1889)
"You see, the genuine spiritlessness is wanting; that's what's the trouble.
It's all amateur—mechanical details all right, almost to a hair; everything about ..."
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