languorous


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
languor /ˈlaŋgə/
noun
  • 1 tiredness or inactivity, especially when pleasurable.
  • 2 an oppressive stillness of the air.
– derivatives
languorous adjective,
languorously adverb.
– origin ME (orig. in the sense ‘illness, distress’, later ‘faintness, lassitude’): via OFr. from L., from languere (see languish).
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