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Languor vs Weariness - What's the difference?

languor | weariness | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between languor and weariness

is that languor is a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude while weariness is exhaustion, fatigue or tiredness.

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
  • weariness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • exhaustion, fatigue or tiredness
  • a lack of interest or excitement
  • Synonyms

    * defatigation * fatigue