different between languor vs weariness

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?læ???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?læ?(?)?/
• Rhymes: -æ???(?)
• Hyphenation: lan?guor

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English langore, langour (“disease, illness; misery, sadness; suffering; condition or event causing sadness, suffering, etc.; unwholesomeness; idleness, inertia; depression, self-disgust; expression of grief”) [and other forms], from Middle French languer, langueur, langour, and Anglo-Norman langor, langour, langur, Old French langueur, languour (“disease, illness; suffering; emotional fatigue, sadness; listlessness; stagnation”) (modern French langueur (“langour”)), and from their etymon Latin languor (“faintness, feebleness; languor; apathy”), from langu?re, the present active infinitive of langue? (“to feel faint or weak; (figurative) to be idle, inactive; to be listless”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-, *(s)leh?g-. The English word is cognate with Catalan llangor, Italian languore (“faintness, weakness; languor”), langore (obsolete), Old Occitan langor (modern Occitan langor), Portuguese langor, languor (obsolete), Spanish langor.

Noun

languor (countable and uncountable, plural languors)

1. (uncountable) A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; (countable) an instance of this.

   Synonym: torpor
2. (uncountable) Melancholy caused by lovesickness, sadness, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
3. (uncountable) Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.
4. (uncountable) Listless indolence or inactivity, especially if enjoyable or relaxing; dreaminess; (countable) an instance of this.
5. (uncountable) Heavy humidity and stillness of the air.
6. (uncountable, obsolete) Sorrow; suffering; also, enfeebling disease or illness; (countable, obsolete) an instance of this.

Alternative forms

• languour

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Etymology 2

The verb is derived from Middle English langouren (“to be ill; to languish, suffer; to cause to suffer”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman langurer and Middle French langorer, langorir, langourer (“to languish; to be languorous”), from Old French languerer, from langueur (“disease, illness; suffering; emotional fatigue, sadness; listlessness; stagnation”); see further at etymology 1 above. Later uses of the verb have been influenced by the noun.

Verb

languor (third-person singular simple present languors, present participle languoring, simple past and past participle languored)

1. (intransitive) To languish.

Derived terms

• languoring (adjective)
• languoring (noun) (obsolete)
• languorment (obsolete)

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References

Further reading

• languor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• languor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• languor at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Etymology

From langue?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lan.??or/, [???ä????r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lan.?wor/, [?l???w?r]

Noun

languor m (genitive langu?ris); third declension

1. faintness, feebleness, languor, apathy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• languor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• languor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• languor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin languor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan??wo?/, [lã???wo?]

Noun

languor m (plural languores)

1. (rare) languor

Related terms

• lánguido

English

Etymology

From Middle English werynes, werinesse, from Old English w?ri?ness (“weariness”), equivalent to weary +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w???in?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w??in?s/
• Hyphenation: weari?ness

Noun

weariness (usually uncountable, plural wearinesses)

1. Exhaustion, fatigue or tiredness.
   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.

2. A lack of interest or excitement.

Synonyms

• defatigation
• fatigue

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