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Heaviness vs Languor - What's the difference?

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Heaviness is a related term of languor.


As nouns the difference between heaviness and languor

is that heaviness is the state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity while languor is (uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude.

heaviness

English

Noun

  • The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
  • (obsolete) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
  • *:First got with guile, and then preseru'd with dread, / And after spent with pride and lauishnesse, / Leauing behind them griefe and heauinesse .

    • languor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * languour

    Noun

  • (uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude
    • languor of convalescence
  • (countable) listless indolence; dreaminess
    • a certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer --
  • (uncountable) dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnation
    • from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity --
  • (obsolete, countable) An enfeebling disease; suffering

    • Related terms

    * languid * languish * languorous

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