The Only Use
listless
in
1984, by Orwell
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- It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.†
p. 73.9listlessness = lack of energy and normal enthusiasm
Definitions:
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(1)
(listless) lacking energy and normal enthusiasm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)