languor

languor
n
1. weakness, faintness, feebleness, frailty, enfeeblement; debility, Pathol. asthenia, Pathol. adynemia, Pathol. atony; decrepitude, infirmness, infirmity, sickliness, invalidism; strain, eyestrain, fatigue, tiredness, enervation, exhaustion; lassitude, strengthlessness, powerlessness, anemia, Inf. the blahs.
2. sluggishness, languidness, laggardness, Archaic. languishment; torpidity, torpor, Archaic. lenitude, slowness, lethargy, (in the Middle East) kef; indolence, sloth, slothfulness, lotus-eating; inactivity, inertia, inertness, inaction, inanimateness, inanimation, lifelessness; sleepiness, drowsiness, doziness, somnolence.
3. spiritlessness, listlessness, lackadaisicalness; apathy, indifference, uninterestedness, inexcitability, incuriousness, enthusiasm; boredom, ennui, dullness, hebetude, phlegm; passionlessness, passivity, half-heartedness; unfeelingness, unemotionalness, insensitivity, insensibility, stolidity.
4. stillness, tranquillity, quiescence, calm, lull, wind-lessness, calm before the storm; silence, din of silence, dead calm, deathlike calm, flat calm.

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