languor

Speech parts

1. languor - Noun

2. languor - Verb

Meaning

A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

Any enfeebling disease.

Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope.

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Examples

. . . it was the last weakness he meant to indulge in and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow. George Eliot

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering. E. O. Wilson

Its decadence, satiety, and languor [of Roman civilization] interested me. And I kept looking and returning to their wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and their elegant plasticity. I admired the way they used their geology in their art - the sense of mineral, clay. rock, marble, and stone. William Baziotes

The two conditions that lead others to languor – i.e. leisure and solitude – him made sharper. Cicero

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness. Anne Rivers Siddons

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

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