What's the difference between "list" and "desire"?
"To list" can be a synonym for "to desire." Under what circumstances would one choose one rather than the other?
Solution 1:
David Foster Wallace uses the term ‘list’ in this interview in a conventional sense: the enumeration of things denied in childhood.
When I first read your question, I thought you’d meant to type ‘lust,’ which is a similar to impassioned sexual desire.
Listless may have come from the archaic use of ‘list’ as desire.