Meaning of Languor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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
2. Melancholy caused by lovesickness, sadness, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
   uncountable
3. Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.
   uncountable
4. Listless indolence or inactivity, especially if enjoyable or relaxing; dreaminess; (countable) an instance of this.
   uncountable
5. Heavy humidity and stillness of the air.
   uncountable
6. Sorrow; suffering; also, enfeebling disease or illness; (countable, obsolete) an instance of this.
   obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“languor of convalescence”

“Sometimes my pulse beat⟳ so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.”

“As the opinion announcements have⟳ stretched past the half-hour mark⟳, some in the public gallery exhibit a bit of languor, but they perk up when [U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena] Kagan begins discussing western gray squirrels.”

“I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished.”

“From languor she passed to the lightest vivacity; her temper became merry and wild in the extreme; she was all at once a tease, a tomboy, and a witch.”

“It is earth's brief breathing space, after the heat and hurry⟳ of her busier time; like⟳ that repose known only to the young and happy, when the nerves gradually compose themselves, the thoughts gather into some vague but delicious train⟳, and the eyes are closed by languor before sleep⟳.”

“The languor of Youth—how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth—all save⟳ this—come⟳ and go with us through life; [...] but languor—the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind⟳ sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own⟳ pulse—that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.”

“Repose! The very word has a nostalgic ring⟳ to it, conjuring up a vanished world of pale solitude, gentle distances, summer vistas, languour, and lovely women …”

“There is a languor in the air which encourages your own⟳, and the poetry of memory is in every drooping flower and falling leaf.”

“[A] certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer.”

“The evening was mild, with a certain languor in the air.”

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