State of Languishing

A State of Languishing is a negative emotional state associated with a feeling of hollowness and emptyness.

Context:
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Counter-Example(s):
- State of Fear, State of Anger.
- State of Flourishing.
See: Positive Psychology, Wikt:Descriptor, Virtue, Subjective Well-Being, Pathology.

References

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flourishing Retrieved:2021-12-17.
- Flourishing is "when people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time," living "within an optimal range of human functioning."^[1] It is a descriptor and measure of positive mental health and overall life well-being,^[1]^[2] and includes multiple components and concepts, such as cultivating strengths, subjective well-being, "goodness, generativity, growth, and resilience." Flourishing is the opposite of both pathology and languishing, which are described as living a life that feels hollow and empty. It is a central concept in positive psychology, developed by Corey Keyes and Barbara Fredrickson.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html
- QUOTE: ... It wasn’t burnout — we still had energy. It wasn’t depression — we didn’t feel hopeless. We just felt somewhat joyless and aimless. It turns out there’s a name for that: languishing.
  Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield. And it might be the dominant emotion of 2021. ...

(Keyes, 2002) ⇒ Corey LM Keyes. (2002). “The Mental Health Continuum: From Languishing to Flourishing in Life.” Journal of health and social behavior