Languor vs Fatigue - What's the difference?
languor | fatigue |
(uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude
(countable) listless indolence; dreaminess
(uncountable) dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnation
(obsolete, countable) An enfeebling disease; suffering
A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
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A menial task, especially in the military.
(engineering) A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.
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to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
(intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
As a noun languor
is (uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude.As a verb fatigue is
.As an adjective fatigue is
tired.languor
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Alternative forms
* languourNoun
- languor of convalescence
- a certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer --
- from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity --
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- Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.