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languor

languor

2 8.3
A feeling of being very tired and moving slowly
  • noun
  • /ˈlæŋɡər/
translation icon : languidez
  • The languor of the hot summer afternoon made everyone feel drowsy and relaxed.
  • hours of languor
  • kind of languor
  • felt a languor

Your eyes through the green quiet, the hot languor of noon, sudden through its cleft peace.

Examples

  • Gone absolutely in spite of all its languor, all its loveliness.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Sometimes he had sharp, swift pains in his head, and again there would be long hours of languor when he could scarcely bear to change his position or lift a pen.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Back to Alice, back to the strange languor of that life.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Or had another kind of languor invaded their beings?

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Your eyes through the green quiet, the hot languor of noon, sudden through its cleft peace.

    Harvard University

  • Nor did they see another pair of eyes watching them with languor and delight through the loosely closed curtains.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Only when I look up at the moon, my daytime languor is momentarily mitigated.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • But today I felt a catlike languor envelop me, a sense of well-being that came from knowing I had my castle to myself.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Over the city there rested a certain languor and fatigue, a sense of something changeless and immutable.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The lapping of the conversation and the steady pace of consumption had an unanticipated, sensual languor.

    Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

lethargy
vslanguor
12 6.3

A feeling of tiredness and low energy

is often pleasant or relaxing rather than illness related
sluggishness
vslanguor
4 4.4

A state of being slow and having little energy

is still tiredness that can be pleasant rather than mere slowness
lassitude
vslanguor
  • Formal
3 9.3

A feeling of being very tired and having little energy

is sometimes pleasant or heavy rather than only tired and unenthusiastic
listlessness
vslanguor
2 6.8

A feeling of little energy and no interest

is often calm stillness that can be pleasant or oppressive
dreaminess
vslanguor
1 4.2

A relaxed, comfortable feeling of being lost in pleasant daydreams

can also mean heavy or oppressive lack of energy rather than only pleasant

Antonyms

energy
553 1.0

Physical or mental strength that helps you stay active

vitality
29 4.3

Energy and liveliness that make a person or thing seem active

How Tired

exhaustion
78 3.6
lethargy
12 6.3
weariness
20 3.1
languor
2 8.3
fatigue
92 4.2

Surface Forms

languor singular
languors plural

Etymology

Languor comes from the Latin verb languēre, which means 'to be weak or faint', and is the same root as the English words languid and languish. So languor is that slow, heavy feeling of tiredness or lack of energy, sometimes pleasant and relaxing, sometimes heavy and uncomfortable.