Dictionary entry

Languor

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Lan″guor (?), n. [OE. langour, OF. langour, F. langueur, L. languor. See Languish.] 1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

2. Any enfeebling disease.

Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif (Luke iv. 40).

3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. “ German dreams, Italian languors.” The Century.

Syn. — Feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude; listlessness.