Languor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Languor \Lan"guor\, n. [OE. langour, OF. langour, F. langueur,
     L. languor. See Languish.]
     1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion
        of strength and characterized by a languid feeling;
        feebleness; lassitude; laxity.
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     2. Any enfeebling disease. [Obs.]
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              Sick men with divers languors.        --Wyclif (Luke
                                                    iv. 40).
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     3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. --Pope. " German dreams,
        Italian languors." --The Century.
  
     Syn: Feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness;
          heaviness; lassitude; listlessness.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  languor
       n 1: a relaxed comfortable feeling [syn: {dreaminess}]
       2: a feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: {lassitude}, {listlessness}]
       3: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy [syn: {lethargy},
           {sluggishness}, {phlegm}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "languor":
     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