languor
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Middle English langour, langor, from Old French, from Latin languor from langure (“‘to feel faint, languish’”).
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languor (countable and uncountable; plural languors)
- (uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude
- languor of convalescence
- (countable) listless indolence; dreaminess
- a certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer -- James Purdy
- (uncountable) dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnation
- from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity -- Elinor Wylie
- (obsolete, countable) An enfeebling disease; suffering
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