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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
Example:
the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends
Synonyms:
flatness; languor; lethargy; phlegm; sluggishness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("languor" is a kind of...):
inactiveness; inactivity; inertia (a disposition to remain inactive or inert)
Derivation:
languorous (lacking spirit or liveliness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A feeling of lack of interest or energy
Synonyms:
languor; lassitude; listlessness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("languor" is a kind of...):
apathy (an absence of emotion or enthusiasm)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A relaxed comfortable feeling
Synonyms:
dreaminess; languor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("languor" is a kind of...):
easiness; relaxation (a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Oppressively still air
Example:
Summer shows all the languor of a hot, breezeless day as the dancer lazily brushes her hand over her brow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("languor" is a kind of...):
air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)
Context examples:
Now it was languor, and all but solitude.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
They retired and I turned towards my friend, but he was sunk in languor and almost deprived of life.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It was very like a sea, this deadly languor, that rose and rose and drowned his consciousness bit by bit.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But his languor altogether was quite a wonderful sight; except when he addressed himself to his cousin Annie.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was only in his presence that Catherine felt the smallest fatigue from her journey; and even then, even in moments of languor or restraint, a sense of general happiness preponderated, and she could think of her friends in Bath without one wish of being with them.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She had been particularly unwell, however, suffering from headache to a degree, which made her aunt declare, that had the ball taken place, she did not think Jane could have attended it; and it was charity to impute some of her unbecoming indifference to the languor of ill-health.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his black-letter editions.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her tone of calm languor, for she never took the trouble of raising her voice, was always heard and attended to; and Sir Thomas came back.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I rushed towards her and embraced her with ardour, but the deadly 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.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Mrs. Micawber put on her brown gloves, and assumed a genteel languor.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
