languidness
(ˈlæŋgwɪdnɪs)
[f. languid a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being languid; languor.
| 1665 Boyle Exp. Hist. Cold xiii. (1683) 132 This languidness of operation may perhaps proceed in great part from the smalness of the Pieces of Ice that were imploy'd. 1678 Wood Life 8 Jan., Colds without coffing or running at the nose, onlie a languedness and faintness. 1744 Wall in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 224 The Operation of Musk much resembles that of Opium; but..it leaves not behind it any Stupor or Languidness. 1762 R. Guy Pract. Obs. Cancers 32 The seeming Languidness and Inactivity of the contained Humour. |