What's the difference between lassitude and vapid?

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.

Vapid


Definition:

  • (a.) Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Beyond that, MSNBC devotes three hours each morning to a show hosted by a former rightwing GOP congressman and his cavalcade of vapid "centrist" establishment journalists such as Mark Halperin (then again, Fox features the idiosyncratic and unpredictable Shepard Smith each night).
  • (2) She comes across as vapid and totally uncouth without a bit of finesse about her.
  • (3) Greece Aligned to Eurovision's Balkan Bloc Not only is Saki Rouvas's This is Our Night marvellously, teeth-grindingly, competition-winningly vapid, but more importantly, Greece is the epicentre of the many-tentacled Balkan Bloc.
  • (4) The exhibition content is, in the main, as vapid as the architecture is extravagant.
  • (5) "I used to think that focusing on the visual aspect was really vapid and ridiculous too," she admits, "but I've come to realise it's actually one of the most powerful tools I have to work with.
  • (6) Since then, while some mainstream rap has veered to the materialistic and misogynistic, there have always been successful rappers who have rallied against the vapid.
  • (7) For while humanists work hard to create new ceremonies, many find them vapid.
  • (8) She zeited the geist of the mid-90s superbly, but Bridget, never trying be too strident (offputting to men) was for me the epitome of post-feminism – vapid, consumerist and self-obsessed.
  • (9) Vapid and sexless, pop was little more than a Smash Hits remake of American Bandstand three decades earlier.
  • (10) He may look vapid sometimes for Chelsea but he has scored nine goals in Europe and there are only two players, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski, with more this season.
  • (11) For the majority, however, the primary concern is not vapid rhetoric, nor even resentment about expenses fiddling, which parts of the media have now elevated above substantive policy arguments for years.
  • (12) For Brazil, there was also the added satisfaction of seeing Fred, who has been the subject of so much criticism following his vapid displays against Croatia and Mexico, get on the scoresheet.
  • (13) In his thoughtful demeanour seems to be an implicit criticism of the vapidity of today's world.
  • (14) Nobody has been subjected to these vapid discrediting techniques more than Noam Chomsky.
  • (15) It's said by a really vapid character who we're not meant to like.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Game of Thrones: spectacular but vapid.
  • (17) As one of their champions, Bono, recently put it in the New York Times , their music "contains all the big themes and ideas that make all around them seem so vapid".
  • (18) And indeed, see what happened in 2008 when Politico's own Mike Allen interviewed George Bush with questions so vapid and reverent that it would have shamed his profession if it were capable of that.
  • (19) United did not play anywhere close to their top level but they did not have to when their opponents were so vapid.
  • (20) Vapid passages can be forgiven if they are followed by substance.