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n. - Inactivity; A feeling of lack of interest or energy; A relaxed comfortable feeling.

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  • Lying there beside her, he was filled with an agreeable languor.
  • Her eyes, as she raises them, have the hazy, dreamy languor, which is so characteristic of the mixed races.
  • But his long face had nothing of that languor which is associated with long cuffs and manicuring in the caricatures of our own country.
  • She experienced the gentle languor which is its best effect, instead of the fierce unrest and irritation which is its worst.
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