'Languor' definitions:
Definition of 'languor'
From: WordNet
noun
A relaxed comfortable feeling [syn: languor, dreaminess]
noun
A feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: languor, lassitude, listlessness]
noun
Inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends" [syn: languor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatness]
Definition of 'Languor'
From: GCIDE
- Languor \Lan"guor\, n. [OE. langour, OF. langour, F. langueur, L. languor. See Languish.]
- 1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any enfeebling disease. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Sick men with divers languors. --Wyclif (Luke iv. 40). [1913 Webster]
- 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. --Pope. " German dreams, Italian languors." --The Century.
- Syn: Feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude; listlessness. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'languor'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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