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languor

[ lang-ger ]

noun

  1. lack of energy or vitality; sluggishness.
  2. lack of spirit or interest; listlessness; stagnation.
  3. physical weakness or faintness.
  4. emotional softness or tenderness.


languor

/ ˈ±ôæŋɡə /

noun

  1. physical or mental laziness or weariness
  2. a feeling of dreaminess and relaxation
  3. oppressive silence or stillness
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of languor1

1250–1300; < Latin ( languish, -or 1 ); replacing Middle English langour sickness, woe < Old French < Latin
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of languor1

C14 langour, via Old French from Latin languor, from ±ô²¹²Ô²µ³Üŧ°ù±ð to languish; the modern spelling is directly from Latin
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Along with stirring up these painful memories, the fall also signals the end of summer’s languor.

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Whether nauseatingly explicit or eerily suggestive, the murders shock less for their punishing particulars than for the dreamy languor with which they’re enacted and filmed.

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The feud between wealthy neighbors is emblematic of the city’s languor when it comes to building anything.

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But despite reminding those who mention the Jedi and its protocols that the Order no longer exists, this Ahsoka certainly behaves like one to the point of almost verging into languor.

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Not coincidentally pro football only took off as a national sport during the late ’50s and ’60s when it embraced television, which marketed football’s brutality as a counterweight to baseball’s languor.

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