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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
2. any enfeebling disease. obs.
1913 webster
sick men with divers languors. --wyclif luke
iv. 40.
1913 webster
3. listless indolence; dreaminess. --pope. " german dreams,
italian languors." --the century.
syn: feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness;
heaviness; lassitude; listlessness.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
dreaminess lassitude listlessness lethargy sluggishness phlegm
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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