noun
- Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
- synonyms: emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality
- Expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness.
- synonyms: sputum
- Inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy.
- usage: "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"
- synonyms: languor, lethargy, sluggishness, flatness
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