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Languidness

Languid \Lan"guid\, a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. languide. See Languish.]

  1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. `` Languid, powerless limbs. ''
    --Armstrong.

    Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue.
    --Addison.

  2. Slow in progress; tardy. `` No motion so swift or languid.''
    --Bentley.

  3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.

    Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon.
    --Keats.

    Their idleness, aimless flirtations and languid airs.
    --W. Black.

    Syn: Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary; listless; heavy; dull; heartless. -- Lan"guid*ly, adv. -- Lan"guid*ness, n.

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languidness

n. The property of being languid.

Usage examples of "languidness".

Prior to the development of the spasmodic affection, there is usually a period in which the sufferer notes a want of appetite, languidness, with disinclination towards mental or bodily pursuits, headache, restlessness, pains in the limbs and joints, with irritable temper and weakness of memory.