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Torpid vs Languor - What's the difference?

torpid | languor |

As an adjective torpid

is unmoving, dormant or hibernating.

As a noun languor is

a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude.

torpid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • unmoving, dormant or hibernating
  • lazy, lethargic or apathetic

    • Synonyms

    * lethargic

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    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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