Quiescent vs Languid - What's the difference?
quiescent | languid | Related terms |
Inactive, at rest, quiet.
* Professor Wilson
(grammar) Not sounded; silent.
Lacking enthusiasm, energy, or strength; drooping or flagging from weakness, fatigue, or lack of energy; indisposed to exertion; sluggish; relaxed: as, languid movements; languid breathing.
* — As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
* — I was languid and dull and very bad company when I wrote the above; I am better now, to my own feelings at least, and wish I may be more agreeable.
Heavy; dull; dragging; wanting spirit or animation; listless; apathetic.
A languet in an organ (musical instrument).
* 1913 , Standard Organ Building , page 150:
Quiescent is a related term of languid.
As adjectives the difference between quiescent and languid
is that quiescent is inactive, at rest, quiet while languid is languid.quiescent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.
- In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist.
- The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".
Synonyms
* still * tranquilDerived terms
* quiescence * quiescentlySee also
* acquiescent * quiesce ----languid
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* exhausted * faint * listless * swear/sweer * weak * wearyEtymology 2
Alteration of (m).Noun
(en noun)- As may be required, a small hole is bored in either of the languids', or in the back of the pipe in the space between the two '''languids'''. By this means, in addition to the current of air passing between the ' languids and the lower lip,