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Meanings of languor in English
Portuguese
letargia 
A state of physical and/or mental weakness and a lack of vigor.
Catalan
ensopiment Synonyms
Examples for "dreaminess"
Examples for "dreaminess"
1
Hugo packed his bags one September afternoon, with a feeling of dreaminess.
2
Mrs Churchward's expression softened and a certain dreaminess crept into her eyes.
3
I got myself together for the morning's funerals with a smiling dreaminess.
4
Clare's wistful dreaminess had vanished now, and she was bright and animated.
5
The beauty and dreaminess of the Ave Maria flooded the air with loveliness.
Usage of languor in English
1
This general languor is the effect of general luxury, of general idleness.
2
Some were smoking; some chatting merrily together; some sitting in dreamy languor.
3
The suit proceeded with all the languor and chicanery of the period.
4
The Old Bachelor was written for amusement, in the languor of convalescence.
5
The next day a sort of languor took possession of the army.
6
What languor had been in her voice when she used to say:
7
The fever of the past two years was followed by comparative languor.
8
He could not direct his thoughts; a languor had crept over him.
9
She looked up- awitch-likelanguor lay in her eyes-her red lips pouted.
10
His extreme languor in moving was, perhaps, what displeased her the most.
11
But there was no languor about Pixie; she looked intensely, brilliantly alive.
12
While Leo is away, the family falls into a kind of languor.
13
As in a charmed circle of palpitating song, he succumbed to languor.
14
There was a languor and sweetness to the air that instigated laziness.
15
Hence the national theatres have become true hospitals for languor and laziness.
16
Then languor of mind: you must be alert, energetic, in your thought.
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Languor through the time
Languor across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare