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1 indolence
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2 mollesse
mollesse [mɔlεs]feminine noun[de marché] sluggishness• il est d'une mollesse ! he's so slow!* * *mɔlɛs1) ( caractère moelleux) softness2) ( de chair) flabbiness; ( de trait du visage) weakness3) ( de personne) listlessness; ( de poignée de main) limpness4) ( manque d'autorité)la mollesse du gouvernement face aux manifestants — the government's failure to stand up to the demonstrators
5) fig (de personne, réponse) lack of conviction; (d'idée, de style) woolliness; ( d'opposition) weakness; ( de croissance) sluggishness* * *mɔlɛs nfSee:1) [matelas] softness3) [résistance, protestation] feebleness* * *mollesse nf1 ( caractère moelleux) softness;2 ( manque de tenue) ( de chair) flabbiness; ( de cheveux) limpness; ( de trait du visage) weakness;3 ( apathie) (de personne, d'élève) listlessness; ( de poignée de main) limpness; mollesse d'une démarche languid way of moving;4 ( manque d'autorité) la mollesse d'un père envers ses enfants a father's soft treatment of his children; la mollesse de qn face à qn sb's failure to stand up to sb; il a réagi avec trop de mollesse face à la crise he was too soft in handling the crisis;5 ( manque de conviction) (de personne, réponse) lack of conviction; ( d'idéologie) laxness; (d'idée, de style) woolliness; (d'opposition, interprétation, de discours) weakness; (de reprise, croissance) sluggishness.[mɔlɛs] nom féminin1. [d'une substance, d'un objet] softness[des chairs] flabbiness[d'une poignée de main] limpness2. [d'un relief] soft shape[de contours]c'est la mollesse des parents/de l'opposition qui est en cause parental laxness/the opposition's spinelessness is to blame -
3 apathie
apathie [apati]feminine noun* * *apati* * *apati nf* * *apathie nf ( personnelle) apathy; ( politique) indifference, apathy; ( économique) stagnation; ( sportive) lethargy.[apati] nom féminin -
4 marasme
marasme [maʀasm]masculine noun* * *maʀasmnom masculin Économie, Politique stagnationêtre dans le or en plein marasme — to be in the doldrums
* * *maʀasm nm1) POLITIQUE, ÉCONOMIE stagnation2) vieilli (= accablement) depression* * *marasme nm1 Écon, Pol stagnation; marasme politique/économique political/economic stagnation; le marasme de la construction navale the slump in the shipbuilding industry; être dans le marasme or en plein marasme to be in the doldrums;2 ( abattement) depression;[marasm] nom masculinnous sommes en plein marasme we're going through a slump, our economy's in the doldrums -
5 nonchalance
nonchalance [nɔ̃∫alɑ̃s]feminine noun* * *nɔ̃ʃalɑ̃snom féminin nonchalance* * *nɔ̃ʃalɑ̃s nf* * *nonchalance nf nonchalance; avec nonchalance nonchalantly.[nɔ̃ʃalɑ̃s] nom féminin[indifférence, insouciance] nonchalance[lenteur] listlessness
См. также в других словарях:
listlessness — index disinterest (lack of interest), languor, sloth Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
listlessness — listless ► ADJECTIVE ▪ lacking energy or enthusiasm. DERIVATIVES listlessly adverb listlessness noun. ORIGIN Old English … English terms dictionary
Listlessness — Listless List less, a. [OE. listles, lustles. See {Lust}.] Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. A listless unconcern. Thomson. [1913 Webster] Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain. Dryden. [1913 Webster] I… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
listlessness — noun see listless … New Collegiate Dictionary
listlessness — See listlessly. * * * … Universalium
listlessness — noun The state of being listless; indifference; lethargy … Wiktionary
listlessness — Synonyms and related words: accidia, acedia, adynamia, aloofness, anemia, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, atony, benumbedness, blah, blah feeling, blahs, bloodlessness, boredom, cachexia, cachexy, carelessness, casualness, comatoseness, cowardice,… … Moby Thesaurus
listlessness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. idleness, lethargy, inactivity; see indifference 1 , laziness . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. A deficiency in mental and physical alertness and activity: dullness, hebetude, languidness, languor, lassitude, leadenness,… … English dictionary for students
listlessness — n. indifference, languor, unconcern, apathy, lack of energy … English contemporary dictionary
listlessness — n 1. languor, languidness, lassitude, ennui, Inf. the blahs; phlegmaticness, lethargy, sluggishness, fatigue, weariness, enervation; hebetude, heaviness, phlegm, leadenness, drowsiness, sleepiness, (in the Middle East) kef; lackadaisicalness,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
listlessness — list·less·ness … English syllables