supineness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supineness
Noun
  • But she was bothered by the attendant weight gain and lethargy.
    Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Other symptoms of milk allergy can include vomiting, diarrhea, rectal bleed, lethargy, etc.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Only today are the costs of our apathy fully apparent.
    Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Symptoms include depression, disinterest in the job, listlessness, apathy, insomnia, stomach upset, headache and dizziness.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Someone who is depressed can often wake up feeling fatigued, and the sleep inertia that normally lasts around 20 minutes for someone who is not depressed can instead last several hours, Harvey said.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Clark points to cost, complexity, and inertia.
    Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This languor expands in the velvety air.
    J.T. Townley, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2025
  • During an epidemic that otherwise made life hectic and clamorous, the militarized languor of the residents was glaring precisely because Liberians who were already displaced from the recent Civil War felt abandoned by the government.
    Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The government insisted that the corn be sold rather than given away (free food would merely reinforce Irish indolence), and those who received it had little idea at first how to cook it.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The idea of Irish indolence fused with a quasi-religious faith in the laws of the market to shape the British response to the famine.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The result of this lassitude is that cars still rule the streets.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025
  • But neither was there the ho-hum, dutiful lassitude that usually accompanies second inaugurations, like Barack Obama’s in 2013.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Supineness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supineness. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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