languor

1 a relaxed comfortable feeling [syn: dreaminess]

2 a feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: lassitude, listlessness]

3 inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy [syn: lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm]

English

Etymology

Middle English langour, langor, from Old French, from Latin languor, from langure to feel faint, languish -- more at slack

Noun

1. a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude
2. listless indolence: dreaminess

   certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer -- James Purdy

3. dullness, sluggishness: lack of vigor: stagnation

   from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity -- Elinor Wylie

4. obsolete. enfeebling disease: suffering

Translations

• French: langueur

abeyance, acedia, adynamia, anemia, apathy, atony, blah feeling, bloodlessness, blues, boredom, brain fag, cachexia, cachexy, catalepsy, catatonia, cautiousness, circumspection, coma, cowardice, creeping, deadliness, deathliness, debilitation, debility, deliberateness, deliberation, depression, doldrums, dormancy, doziness, drawl, drowsiness, dullness, dumps, enervation, enfeeblement, ennui, entropy, etiolation, exhaustion, eyestrain, faintness, fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, foot-dragging, goneness, heart strain, heaviness, hebetude, idleness, impotence, inanimation, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, jadedness, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languorousness, lassitude, latency, laziness, leisureliness, lenitude, lentitude, lentor, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, lotus-eating, mental fatigue, mental strain, oscitancy, oscitation, overstrain, overtiredness, pandiculation, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, pokiness, prostration, reluctance, satedness, slackness, sleep, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, slumber, softness, somnolence, somnolency, stagnancy, stagnation, stance fatigue, stasis, strain, strengthlessness, stretching, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, suspense, tedium, tentativeness, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, vegetation, vis inertiae, weakliness, weakness, wearifulness, weariness, world-weariness, yawning