Languor

Alternative forms

• languour

Origin

From the Middle English langour, langor, from the Old French langueur, from Latin languor ("faintness, languor"), from languere ("to feel faint, languish").

Full definition of languor

Noun

1. (uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitudelanguor of convalescence
2. (countable) listless indolence; dreaminessa certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer --
3. (uncountable) dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnationfrom languor she passed to the lightest vivacity --
4. (obsolete, countable) An enfeebling disease; suffering

Related terms

• languid
• languish
• languorous