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The energy of a phone at 1% refusing to die or live.
means Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or interest, drifting through tasks without any drive to do them.
from From Middle English "listles" — "list" here is the old noun meaning desire or inclination (from Old English "lystan," to please or wish for, a cousin of "lust"), plus the suffix "-less." So to be listless is, quite literally, to be without wanting. The same "list" survives in the archaic verb "as you list" (as you please), now nearly extinct, leaving "listless" as its rather glum surviving relative.
- origin
- From Old English 'lust' meaning desire or vigor
- literal sense
- Lacking 'list,' an archaic word for inclination
- medical cousin
- A classic symptom doctors note in patients
- opposite
- Etymological sibling of the very alive 'lusty'
sam gamgee lotr — becomes listless after frodo leaves middle-earth in the return of the king
depression in dsm-5 — listlessness/anhedonia is a core symptom affecting millions clinically diagnosed