Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being languid; listlessness; dullness; sluggishness; inertness.
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- noun   The property of being languid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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								It harked back to the French and American new waves, and was shot through with a languidness which has led to it being seen subsequently as a progenitor of the US mumblecore movement. 
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								It harked back to the French and American new waves, and was shot through with a languidness which has led to it being seen subsequently as a progenitor of the US mumblecore movement. 
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								The air was warm, humid, enveloping us in its languidness, as though this is how it was meant to be, always. 
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								What used to be considered insipidity in a girl is now just the opposite: sublime languidness! Children Playing by the Sea: the Dynamics of Appropriation in the Brazilian Romantic Novel 2006 
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								September 26th, 2008 at 1: 50 am mortage rates says: mortage rates … strongly? doings languidness file sought …. Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable 2005 
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								Thus, on the other hand, if Heaven should be so kind that she would never have to make war, the languidness that should arise would make her either effeminate or divided: which two together, or each one by itself, would be cause of her ruin. Discourses 2003 
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								"Oh, I certainly know what is good for me," his grace said, the languidness back in his voice. One Night for Love Balogh, Mary 1999 
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								With abject relief, Sophie turned to the owner of the clipped, somewhat hard tones, beneath which a certain languidness rippled, and beheld a strikingly handsome man, bowing even more elegantly than Jack Lester. A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995 
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								With abject relief, Sophie turned to the owner of the clipped, somewhat hard tones, beneath which a certain languidness rippled, and beheld a strikingly handsome man, bowing even more elegantly than Jack Lester. A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995 
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								He yielded at last, from sheer languidness, and came silently into the house. 
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