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• n  the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

• To sweep away the anarchy and "spiritlessness" of Chinese who "lack proper guidance for taking and giving," the Outline proposes ''a wild storm"; to give China the new "right .
• Whyte's opus on corporate America, The Organization Man (1956), warned against conformity and its accompanying spiritlessness.

• apathy
• indifference
• numbness