sluggishness
だるさ
解説 Definition
身体や心が疲れて活動力がない状態。やる気や元気がなく、だるい感じ。
Sluggishness is the state of being slow, low in energy, or not reacting quickly. It can describe a person, the body or mind, or even things like business or economic activity.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
sluggishness は、まず形容詞 sluggish「動きが鈍い・頭の回転が鈍い」を押さえると覚えやすいです。slow よりも、重く引きずるように反応が鈍い感じで、身体にも思考にも使えます。-ness は dark→darkness と同じく「状態」を名詞にする語尾なので、「sluggish な状態」と取ればよいです。morning sluggishness, mental sluggishness のような形で見ると定着しやすく、sleepiness が単なる眠気なのに対し、sluggishness は眠気以外のだるさや頭の鈍さまで含めて言える点も区別すると覚えやすいです。
Start from `sluggish`, then add `-ness` for the state or condition, like `dark` to `darkness`. `Sluggish` is not just slow; it feels heavy, dull, and hard to move or think. That makes `sluggishness` easy to connect with tired body or mind collocations like `morning sluggishness` or `mental sluggishness`.
例文
After a long illness, he struggled with sluggishness and fatigue.
長い病気の後、彼はだるさと疲労に苦しんだ。
The patient reported persistent sluggishness despite adequate sleep.
患者は十分な睡眠にもかかわらず、持続的なだるさを訴えた。
Morning sluggishness gradually disappeared after his morning exercise routine.
朝のだるさは朝の運動習慣の後、徐々に消えた。
sluggishness の類義語・関連語
sluggishness の語源・成り立ち Etymology
sluggishness は中英語 slugge「のろい人・怠け者」がもとで、-ish が「〜っぽい」、-ness が性質を名詞化する。つまり「鈍重さという性質」で、sluggard や sluggish も同じ遅さのイメージを受け継ぐ。
Sluggishness comes from sluggish plus the noun ending -ness. Sluggish is related to Middle English slugge, meaning a slow or lazy person, and the ending -ish helped form the adjective. The noun then came to mean the quality of being slow or heavy in movement or response. Related words include sluggish and sluggard.
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