languor
noun/ˈlæŋɡə(r)/
/ˈlæŋɡər/
[uncountable, singular] (literary)- the pleasant state of feeling lazy and without energy
- A delicious languor was stealing over him.
Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from Latin, from languere, related to laxus ‘loose, lax’. The original sense was ‘illness, distress’, later ‘faintness, lassitude’; current senses date from the 18th cent., when such lassitude became associated with a romantic longing.Definitions on the go
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