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phlegm   (TTS Sound)

The noun phlegm has 3 senses

• emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality -- (apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions)


• phlegm, sputum -- (expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness)


• languor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatness -- (inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends")