What is "spiritlessness"

Spiritless \Spir"it*less\, a.

1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.

2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.

   A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone.
   --Shak.

3. Having no breath; extinct; dead. ``The spiritless body.''
   --Greenhill. [1913 Webster] -- Spir"it*less*ly, adv. -- Spir"it*less*ness, n.

n. The state or quality of being spiritless.

n. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally [syn: apathy, indifference]