What's the difference between lassitude and tiredness?

Lassitude


Definition:

  • (n.) A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Adverse effects are mostly those related to hormone withdrawal, namely, impotence, infertility, and lassitude.
  • (2) Consecutive man-of-the-match performances against Greece and Ivory Coast helped Colombia brush aside the lassitude that swamped the country’s World Cup preparations after injury to their talismanic striker Falcao .
  • (3) The emancipation of children, the anxieties sometimes caused by the age of the parents, the lack of interest which society has in the 50 years old woman, but which it very readily takes in the old woman, conjugal lassitude, the lack of comprehension of those around her, very often bring such women to the doctor, who should know not only how to palliate the oestrogen deficiency, and the organic disorders, but also show evidence of a certain psychological understanding.
  • (4) Twenty workers promptly developed symptoms (e.g., nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, giddiness, lassitude, headache, cough, shortness of breath) that typically lasted a few hours but persisted 1-2 days in 7 cases.
  • (5) A 46-year-old man, presenting with headache, nausea, and lassitude, was diagnosed as having diabetes mellitus and hyponatremia, and admitted to Tohoku University Hospital.
  • (6) 24 out of 30 employees at the X-ray department in Molde were shown to have health problems related to their work, including symptoms relating to the eyes, the upper and lower respiratory tract, and headache and lassitude.
  • (7) Abdominal or rectal pain and lassitude were the other main symptoms.
  • (8) A Senate leadership aide at the time, stunned by what she considered White House lassitude, explained why even people inclined to help Obama would vote against the measure: Obama had decreed Guantánamo be closed without presenting lawmakers with a specific plan they could defend to skeptical constituents.
  • (9) To fall back into the lassitude of the last 12 years, to talk, to discuss, to debate but never act; to declare our will but not enforce it; to combine strong language with weak intentions, a worse outcome than never speaking at all.
  • (10) HVA levels correlated positively with social interest and total positive scores on the Nurses Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (NOSIE-30) and negatively with lassitude and slowness of movements on the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS).
  • (11) Lethal doses of enterotoxin of Clostridium welchii (perfringens) type A injected intravenously into young fowls caused immediate lassitude, with partial recovery, followed by death seven to 35 h after inoculation.
  • (12) We found clinical symptoms of fever, chills, headache, abdominal pain, disturbances in bowel function, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, and lassitude in the first two weeks more frequently when compared with the 3rd, 4th, 5th weeks of illness (p less than 0.001).
  • (13) She was admitted to our hospital for her gradual onset of fatigue, lassitude.
  • (14) Side effects including dizziness, headache, abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, lassitude, arthralgia, sleepiness, cramps and hot sensation were the complaints from 80% of adults and 40% of children.
  • (15) We only observed, for one or two days, lassitude, headache, drowsiness, nausea, epigastric pain or arthralgia-myalgia, always of weak or moderate intensity and for 1 or 2 days.
  • (16) A 46-year-old man experienced weakness, lassitude, and vague, aching abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant.
  • (17) By the end of the study, a statistically significant improvement in three subjective parameters, ie, lassitude, the ability to concentrate in school, and mood was reported by the girls who ingested iron compared with the controls.
  • (18) A 17-year old-male presented with a 6-week history of weight loss, lassitude and calf pains.
  • (19) Anorexia, lassitude and severe diarrhoea were seen in 14 of the infected sheep after 21-26 days.
  • (20) The concurrence of hypertension combined with hypokalemia and revealing subjective symptoms such as paresthesia, muscular weakness and lassitude can suggest this infrequent diagnosis.

Tiredness


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being tired, or weary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However according to the authors' experience physical tiredness can legitimately be suspected to have produced this aggravation in 47.06 % of cases of a secondarily aggravated hepatitis.
  • (2) Long shifts and tiredness are a dangerous combination.
  • (3) The reduction in inspiratory muscle performance in the whole population could be accounted for almost entirely by four subjects who developed symptoms of "tiredness" and easy fatigability while receiving propranolol.
  • (4) A last-minute winner by Wigan Athletic against Manchester City in the 2013 final had earned the Spaniard a step up to Everton, but just when his side, battling against injuries and tiredness as well as waves of United attacks, appeared to have done enough to earn extra-time at least, a killer finish by Anthony Martial, easily the game’s most eye-catching player, ended the contest with seconds to spare.
  • (5) A 60-year-old woman who for many years had been taking salicylate-containing tablets for headaches, was admitted to hospital, in a somnolent state, because of increasing weakness, tiredness, memory and speech disorders, and tinnitus.
  • (6) Subjective symptoms of venous hypertension were assessed by an analogue scale line considering four symptoms: swelling sensation, restless lower extremity, pain and cramps, and tiredness.
  • (7) Oxprenolol likewise exerted little influence on the subjective feelings of general tiredness as measured hourly during the bowling on a visual analogue scale.
  • (8) Of eight subsequent patients treated with quinidine 500 mg b.d., two experienced tiredness and nausea and one severe oral toxicity with epirubicin.
  • (9) Side-effects were minimal, and the most common side-effects emerging for both drugs were sleep disturbance and physical tiredness.
  • (10) More than twice as many dF patients as placebo patients achieved a given weight loss; but more dF patients than placebo patients had transient side-effects (tiredness, diarrhoea, dry mouth, polyuria, and drowsiness).
  • (11) Our defeat had much deeper roots than the recession, tiredness in office or a brave leader unsuited to the modern media.
  • (12) Parents most frequently attributed causes of sleep-walking and nightmares to over-tiredness and over-excitement.
  • (13) Ratings of headache and tiredness were decreased by the caffeine.
  • (14) The increasing infirmity of the aged often associated with tiredness, dyspnea and dizziness even without treatment requires careful instruction of the patient about effects and side effects of the prescribed medication.
  • (15) The ten prominent-symptoms method revealed that subjective symptoms such as nervousness, sleep difficulties, and tiredness were experienced as greater problems than diarrhea.
  • (16) The most common side effect was tiredness (3.7%), which was reported to be mild in some cases.
  • (17) Smoking was associated with poor health, fatigue, school tiredness, school performance below the average, frequent contacts with friends outside school and at night, difficulties in discussion with parents, ease in discussions with friends, and with having close friends.
  • (18) Flu is particularly unpleasant for children, potentially causing a fever, sore throat, aching muscles, extreme tiredness and even complications such as bronchitis and pneumonia.
  • (19) There was a significant difference in subjective feelings of tiredness and drowsiness recorded by the two study groups at 24 hours.
  • (20) The presenting symptoms were syncope (4 cases), dizziness (2 cases), effort angina (1 case) and tiredness (3 cases); 1 patient was asymptomatic.