Languor

Noun

 * 1)  a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude
 * languor of convalescence
 * 1)  listless indolence; dreaminess
 * a certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer -- James Purdy
 * 1)  dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnation
 * from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity -- Elinor Wylie
 * 1)  An enfeebling disease; suffering

Related terms

 * languid
 * languish
 * languorous

Adjectives for Languor
increasing; ladylike; apparent; wearisome; delicious; gentle; delightful; pensive; passionless; restive;  melancholy;  sensuous; dreamy; amorous; unwonted; listless; gracious; soft; blissful; divine; mortal; exceeding; lazy.

Verbs for Languor
complain of—; depress into—; diffuse—; droop in—; exhibit—; exude—; fall into—; perceive—; relieve—; shake off—; sink into —; sway with—; —arrests; —floats over; —oppresses; —pervades; —spreads.

Thesaurus
abeyance, acedia, adynamia, anemia, apathy, atony, blah feeling, bloodlessness, blues, boredom, brain fag, cachexia, cachexy, catalepsy, catatonia, cautiousness, circumspection, coma, cowardice, creeping, deadliness, deathliness, debilitation, debility, deliberateness, deliberation, depression, doldrums, dormancy, doziness, drawl, drowsiness, dullness, dumps, enervation, enfeeblement, ennui, entropy, etiolation, exhaustion, eyestrain, faintness, fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, foot-dragging, goneness, heart strain, heaviness, hebetude, idleness, impotence, inanimation, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, jadedness, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languorousness, lassitude, latency, laziness, leisureliness, lenitude, lentitude, lentor, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, lotus-eating, mental fatigue, mental strain, oscitancy, oscitation, overstrain, overtiredness, pandiculation, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, pokiness, prostration, reluctance, satedness, slackness, sleep, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, slumber, softness, somnolence, somnolency, stagnancy, stagnation, stance fatigue, stasis, strain, strengthlessness, stretching, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, suspense, tedium, tentativeness, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, vegetation, vis inertiae, weakliness, weakness, wearifulness, weariness, world-weariness, yawning

Alternative forms

 * languour

Etymology
From the langour:, langor:, from the  langueur:, from  languor:, from languere:.

Translations

 * French: langueur
 * German: einschläfernde Stille


 * Italian: languore
 * Spanish: languidez, languor

Noun

 * 1) faintness, feebleness,, apathy

Descendants

 * Albanian: lëngjyrë
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