languor Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a relaxed comfortable feeling
    dreaminess.
  2. noun a feeling of lack of interest or energy
    lassitude; listlessness.
  3. noun inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
    flatness; phlegm; lethargy; sluggishness.
    • the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends

WordNet

Lan"guor noun
Etymology
OE. langour, OF. langour, F. langueur, L. languor. See Languish.
Definitions
  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. Obs.
    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.

Webster 1913