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Meaning of "spiritlessness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPIRITLESSNESS

spiritlessness  [ˈspɪrɪtləsnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPIRITLESSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spiritlessness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SPIRITLESSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of spiritlessness in the English dictionary

The definition of spiritlessness in the dictionary is a lack of courage, liveliness or motivation; melancholy. Other definition of spiritlessness is lifelessness.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPIRITLESSNESS


comfortlessness
ˈkʌmfətləsnəs
dauntlessness
ˈdɔːntləsnəs
doubtlessness
ˈdaʊtləsnəs
effortlessness
ˈɛfətləsnəs
exhaustlessness
ɪɡˈzɔːstləsnəs
faultlessness
ˈfɔːltləsnəs
flawlessness
ˈflɔːləsnəs
footlessness
ˈfʊtləsnəs
fruitlessness
ˈfruːtləsnəs
hatlessness
ˈhætləsnəs
heedlessness
ˈhiːdləsnəs
hurtlessness
ˈhɜːtləsnəs
jealousness
ˈdʒɛləsnəs
limitlessness
ˈlɪmɪtləsnəs
objectlessness
ˈɒbdʒɪktləsnəs
resultlessness
rɪˈzʌltləsnəs
statelessness
ˈsteɪtləsnəs
trustlessness
ˈtrʌstləsnəs
weightlessness
ˈweɪtləsnəs
witlessness
ˈwɪtləsnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPIRITLESSNESS

spirit varnish
spirited
spiritedly
spiritedness
spiritful
spiritism
spiritist
spiritistic
spiritless
spiritlessly
spiritoso
spiritous
spiritousness
spirits
spirits of ammonia
spirits of hartshorn
spirits of salt
spirits of turpentine
spirits of wine
spiritual

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPIRITLESSNESS

biliousness
business
callousness
carelessness
consciousness
deliciousness
deviousness
helplessness
hilariousness
homelessness
hopelessness
lawlessness
nervousness
obviousness
preciousness
restlessness
ridiculousness
righteousness
seriousness
unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of spiritlessness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spiritlessness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPIRITLESSNESS

Find out the translation of spiritlessness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spiritlessness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spiritlessness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

spiritlessness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de espiritualidad
570 millions of speakers

English

spiritlessness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

spiritlessness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفتور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бездуховности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

spiritlessness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নির্জীবতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

manque d´esprit
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rohani
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Geistlosigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

spiritlessness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

spiritlessness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spiritlessness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

spiritlessness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

spiritlessness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निष्क्रीयता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

spiritlessness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spiritlessness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spiritlessness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бездуховності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spiritlessness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

spiritlessness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spiritlessness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spiritlessness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spiritlessness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spiritlessness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPIRITLESSNESS»

The term «spiritlessness» is used very little and occupies the 193.316 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPIRITLESSNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spiritlessness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPIRITLESSNESS»

Discover the use of spiritlessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spiritlessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Søren Kierkegaard: Epistemology and psychology : Kierkegaard ...
Therefore, spiritlessness in paganism is the unawareness that a human being is a self that is completely dependent on God. The non- Christian may have insight in this direction. Thus, spiritlessness in paganism is only culpable to the degree ...
Daniel W. Conway, K. E. Gover, 2002
2
Journeys to Selfhood: Hegel and Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard does not hesitate to assert that "to be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all." He attempts to explain this important point when he writes: This is its [spiritlessness's] misfortune, that it has a relation to spirit which proves ...
Mark C. Taylor, 2000
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"Chatter": Language and History in Kierkegaard
(94) Spiritlessness annuls meaningful language, the very language of opposition in which it, as nonspirit, is written. Spiritlessness recognizes neither temporal nor linguistic oppositions; the points of time, like those of language, are rendered ...
Peter Fenves, Peter David Fenves, 1993
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Kierkegaard's Writings, VIII: Concept of Anxiety: A Simple ...
Spiritlessness can say exactly the same thing that the richest spirit has said, but it does not say it by virtue of spirit. Man qualified as spiritless has become a talking machine, and there is nothing to prevent him from repeating by rote a ...
Søren Kierkegaard, 2013
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Kierkegaard
He implicitly invokes a contrast between the “what” and the “how” when he writes: “To a certain degree, spiritlessness may therefore possess the whole content of spirit, but mark well, not as spirit but as the haunting of ghosts, as gibberish, as a  ...
M. Jamie Ferreira, 2009
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The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented ...
If the bliss of this spiritlessness is compared with the state of slaves in paganism, then there is some sense after all in slavery, because it is nothing at all in itself. The perdition of spiritlessness is on the other hand the most terrible thing of all, ...
Soren Kierkegaard, 2014
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Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on the Best Way of Life: A New ...
Just as Dante reserves a place for the virtuous pagans in the first and most benign level of hell, Anti-Climacus reserves the first and most benign level of despair for what he calls the “spiritlessness” of paganism (SUD: 72). Anti- Climacus says ...
Thomas P. Miles, 2013
8
Marx and the Politics of Abstraction
Spiritlessness. For the mass is defined only as the 'opposite' of the spirit, as spiritlessness or to take more precise definitions of spiritlessness, 'indolence', ' superficiality', 'self-complacency'. What a fundamental advantage over the communist ...
Paul Paolucci, 2011
9
Fortunate Fallibility: Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin
Unsurprisingly, then, Haufniensis focuses his critique of theodicy not only on Hegel's system but also on the general “spiritlessness” of the modern age at large. According to Haufniensis, all “spiritless” (Aandløshed) individuals—or rather, ...
Jason A. Mahn, 2011
10
Eclipse of Grace: Divine and Human Action in Hegel
The main thing to notice is the contrast between “utter spiritlessness” (das Geistlose selbst) and “the richest in spirit” (das geistreichste). (I do not think it is important that one term is a capitalized noun and the other an adjectival term.) ...
Nicholas Adams, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPIRITLESSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spiritlessness is used in the context of the following news items.
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A social reformer and mass leader— Lokmanya Tilak
... beyond false-beliefs and ill-practices; then in the name of Moksha [renunciation] there were many who embraced non-action, and felt fulfilled in spiritlessness. «The Hans India, Jul 15»
2
Boy, was I wrong
But each of us tends to be captive to the spirit--or spiritlessness--of our own times, as if each generation is locked into its own elevator in time, unable to escape ... «NWAOnline, Jul 15»
3
Liberal Arts in Middle Ages
... and she desires only to make our palaces resound, detesting the ever-increasing dullness and spiritlessness of the earthborn, resulting from their lack of skill ... «First Things, Apr 15»
4
Ted Nugent Blames Obama For Racism And Veteran Suicide
I thought it was a thing of the past in isolated pockets of inbreeding and cannibalism and spiritlessness.” And then, after claiming that he had never even “gotten ... «The Inquisitr, Mar 15»
5
Weeks Before His Appearance At NRA Meeting, Ted Nugent Calls …
I thought it was a thing of the past in isolated pockets of inbreeding and cannibalism and spiritlessness." According to Nugent, he only became aware of racism ... «Media Matters for America, Mar 15»
6
Richard Ford returns to the man he called the Sportswriter
... started by "a few of us sad-sacks ... out of lack of imagination plus spiritlessness". He's dying, and Bascombe drags himself along to say farewell, despite being ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 14»
7
Pissed Jeans to reissue Shallow and Throbbing Organ via Sub Pop
For those of you that think I'm embellishing the spiritlessness of this release, early buyers can pre-order the “Loser Edition” of the album, which includes the LP ... «Tiny Mix Tapes, Jul 14»
8
'We Win, They Lose'
Or rather the spiritlessness. Vague, abstract, decently distanced from reality. Will this administration's decision to arm the rebels in Syria, at last and only ... «Town Hall, Jun 13»
9
T In The Park 2012
The Stone Roses comeback show promised much but bar a few sing-alongs, their threadbare performance shuffled along with spiritlessness that confirmed the ... «ClashMusic.com, Jul 12»
10
Does Your Depravity Know No Bounds?
... Populist Guide to the Random, Accidental, and Meaningless. I won't be accused of holiday spiritlessness, and these gifts will certainly come in handy for 2011. «San Diego Reader, Jan 11»

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« EDUCALINGO. Spiritlessness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/spiritlessness>. Apr 2024 ».
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