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languor

[lang-ger]

noun

  1. lack of energy or vitality; sluggishness.

  2. lack of spirit or interest; listlessness; stagnation.

  3. physical weakness or faintness.

  4. emotional softness or tenderness.



languor

/ ˈæŋɡə /

noun

  1. physical or mental laziness or weariness

  2. a feeling of dreaminess and relaxation

  3. oppressive silence or stillness

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of languor1

1250–1300; < Latin ( languish, -or 1 ); replacing Middle English langour sickness, woe < Old French < Latin
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Word History and Origins

Origin of languor1

C14 langour, via Old French from Latin languor, from Բŧ to languish; the modern spelling is directly from Latin
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The book’s languor can be ponderous and vintage, more 20th century than 21st.

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Along with stirring up these painful memories, the fall also signals the end of summer’s languor.

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Whether nauseatingly explicit or eerily suggestive, the murders shock less for their punishing particulars than for the dreamy languor with which they’re enacted and filmed.

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The feud between wealthy neighbors is emblematic of the city’s languor when it comes to building anything.

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But despite reminding those who mention the Jedi and its protocols that the Order no longer exists, this Ahsoka certainly behaves like one to the point of almost verging into languor.

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