languor
IPA: ɫˈæŋgwˈɔr
noun
- (uncountable) A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Melancholy caused by lovesickness, sadness, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.
- (uncountable) Listless indolence or inactivity, especially if enjoyable or relaxing; dreaminess; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Heavy humidity and stillness of the air.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Sorrow; suffering; also, enfeebling disease or illness; (countable, obsolete) an instance of this.
verb
- (intransitive) To languish.
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Examples of "languor" in Sentences
- That's why it's languorous.
- Please turn off that languorous music.
- A secret languor was taking hold of my body.
- The professor's class always has been languorous.
- Yet there would be benefits tied up in this languor.
- Moyers' documentaries are languorous, even soporific.
- Original sin is accordingly called the languor of nature.
- The percussion use the cadence of a languorous belly dance.
- This presentation is languorous enough to make me feel sleepy.
- About three o'clock, I was attacked by an overpowering languor.
- The stateman's speech was not professional, rather it was languorous.
- Her eyes, as she raises them, have the hazy, dreamy languor, which is so characteristic of the mixed races.
- But his long face had nothing of that languor which is associated with long cuffs and manicuring in the caricatures of our own country.
- Such19 transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense.
- Such transitions2 often excite mirth, or other sudden and tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense.
- Such [28] transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense.
- Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany.
- Incapable of finding any satisfaction in mercenary intrigues, they succumb to an indefinable sort of languor, which is called home-sickness, though, in reality, love with them is indissolubly associated with their native village, with its steeple and vesper bells, and with the familiar scenes of home.
- The whole of the dramatic music of the eighteenth century must naturally have appeared cold and languid to men whose minds were profoundly moved with troubles and wars; and even at the present day the word languor best expresses that which no longer touches us in the operas of the last century, without even excepting those of Mozart himself.