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word of the day, lassitude \LASS-i-tood; LASS-i-tyood\, noun: Lack of vitality or energy; languor; debility; weariness.

The feverish excitement... had given place to a dull, regretful lassitude.
--George Eliot, Romola

A long exercise of the mental powers induces a remarkable lassitude of the whole body.
--Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful

She felt aged, in deep lassitude and numb despair, and regretted not marrying.
--Ha Jin, Waiting

Mr. Wedgwood [a patron of Samuel Coleridge] sought to distract himself from feelings of depression and lassitude by buying a butcher shop.
--Elizabeth Hardwick, "Its Only Defense: Intelligence and Sparkle," New York Times, September 14, 1986
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