Languor Definition

lănggər, lăngər
noun
A lack of vigor or vitality; weakness.
Webster's New World
A lack of interest or spirit; feeling of listlessness; indifference.
Webster's New World
A dreamy, lazy, or sensual quality, as of expression.
American Heritage
Oppressive stillness, especially of the air.
The languor of a hot July afternoon.
American Heritage
The condition of being still, sluggish, or dull.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Languor

Noun

Singular:
languor
Plural:
languors

Origin of Languor

  • From the Middle English langour, langor, from the Old French langueur, from Latin languor (“faintness, languor”), from languere (“to feel faint, languish”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin from languēre to be languid languish

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Languor Sentence Examples

  • His whole life was indeed one continued illness, but in this part of it his pain and languor had greatly increased.

  • Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me continually for weeks and a deep languor had succeeded this passionate struggle.

  • A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a distinguished air which inspired respect.

  • Being strongly in favour of peace, Pelham carried on the war with languor and indifferent success, but the country, wearied of the interminable struggle, was disposed to acquiesce in his foreign policy almost without a murmur.

  • Even at ten o'clock, when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a bright, hot day in town.

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