languor
noun
lack of energy or vitality; sluggishness.
languors
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pluralof languor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And with this final season coming in two eight-episode tranches, I’m hopeful that we won’t have to worry about the show getting lost in its own languors this time around.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2012
It was no picayune thing of languors, but a grande passion, a robust, full-stomached affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alas, Stern makes a better case for the middle-aged languors of Cambridge than for the pleasures of Cynthia.
From Time Magazine Archive
They meet again nearly two decades later amid the summer languors of the Riviera.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would turn down unfrequented corners and sail by unfamiliar terraces, aware of nothing but the languors of effortless motion.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
