What's the difference between languor and languorous?

Languor


Definition:

  • (n.) A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.
  • (n.) Any enfeebling disease.
  • (n.) Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (3) In the standing and sitting combined working group, "stiffness", "pain" and "languor" of waist were recognized complicatedly in the dentists experienced over 30 years, and their rates were in high degree.
  • (2) When mask-like facial expressions, demarche a petit pas, and languor in her lower extremities did not recur during the next menstruation, bromocriptine treatment was discontinued.
  • (3) The oppressive languor of the Russian summer becomes a guarantee that nothing can ever be resolved.
  • (4) Every scene is languorous, as if the director has created a reality for his actors, and then filmed it over five months.
  • (5) Partly this was a sense that society would go soft with success, or, like the Malays, surrender to the easy languor of the tropics.
  • (6) It is Gauguinesque in style, languorous rather than lascivious, more symbolist than sexual.
  • (7) Under Serra’s leadership, tens of thousands of Native Americans across Alta California, as the region was then known, were absorbed into Catholic missions – places said by one particularly rapturous myth-maker in the 19th century to be filled with “song, laughter, good food, beautiful languor, and mystical adoration of the Christ”.
  • (8) But there's an atmosphere here that lingers, without doubt; a languor that wraps itself around the listener deliciously and dangerously.
  • (9) The driver, a young man in a brown hoodie with a Cleopatra cigarette drooping from his lips, stared languorously at us through the window as we explained our request.
  • (10) Living it up in a dream of Italian aristocratic languor, the Twombly of the 60s was, in a sense, pursuing a classic American lifeplan – but by the same token, he was quite out of step with the American avant-garde.
  • (11) Her voice is languorous but punctuated by the odd harshly stressed word.
  • (12) Jones is dressed in a black flying suit and airman’s hat, and there are no signs of diva behaviour, unless you count the occasional coquettish eye-slide or languorous drawl.
  • (13) Directed by Spain's Fernando Trueba, it's a contemplative, languorous tale centred on a semi-retired sculptor (played by French screen veteran Jean Rochefort ) living in the Pyrenees during the second world war.
  • (14) She has a Rothmans cigarette constantly dangling languorously between her fingers (she once said of a potentially boring time in Kuwait: "I was politically conscious and a chain smoker - I needed no other diversions").
  • (15) It's shot in languorous, long takes, allowing you to absorb the intricacies of body language at your leisure, though with more composition and focus than something shot on handheld.
  • (16) (2) In the sitting working group, "stiffness", "pain" and "languor" of waist were recognized complicatedly.
  • (17) Still, I got more derision for liking the 19th-century-set film The House of Tolerance , about a Parisian bordello called L'Apollonide, where prostitutes provide wealthy men with languorous services.
  • (18) A black mop of shiny hair frames a face with a permanently furrowed brow, and yet there is something languorous about him.
  • (19) It arrived, characteristically, when least expected – just as the country was winding down with office Christmas parties ahead of the customary hazy summer languor of cricket, family gatherings and beach.
  • (20) After a while, languor spread to other parts of her body as well, and she was examined on April 5, 1991.

Languorous


Definition:

  • (a.) Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (3) In the standing and sitting combined working group, "stiffness", "pain" and "languor" of waist were recognized complicatedly in the dentists experienced over 30 years, and their rates were in high degree.
  • (2) When mask-like facial expressions, demarche a petit pas, and languor in her lower extremities did not recur during the next menstruation, bromocriptine treatment was discontinued.
  • (3) The oppressive languor of the Russian summer becomes a guarantee that nothing can ever be resolved.
  • (4) Every scene is languorous, as if the director has created a reality for his actors, and then filmed it over five months.
  • (5) Partly this was a sense that society would go soft with success, or, like the Malays, surrender to the easy languor of the tropics.
  • (6) It is Gauguinesque in style, languorous rather than lascivious, more symbolist than sexual.
  • (7) Under Serra’s leadership, tens of thousands of Native Americans across Alta California, as the region was then known, were absorbed into Catholic missions – places said by one particularly rapturous myth-maker in the 19th century to be filled with “song, laughter, good food, beautiful languor, and mystical adoration of the Christ”.
  • (8) But there's an atmosphere here that lingers, without doubt; a languor that wraps itself around the listener deliciously and dangerously.
  • (9) The driver, a young man in a brown hoodie with a Cleopatra cigarette drooping from his lips, stared languorously at us through the window as we explained our request.
  • (10) Living it up in a dream of Italian aristocratic languor, the Twombly of the 60s was, in a sense, pursuing a classic American lifeplan – but by the same token, he was quite out of step with the American avant-garde.
  • (11) Her voice is languorous but punctuated by the odd harshly stressed word.
  • (12) Jones is dressed in a black flying suit and airman’s hat, and there are no signs of diva behaviour, unless you count the occasional coquettish eye-slide or languorous drawl.
  • (13) Directed by Spain's Fernando Trueba, it's a contemplative, languorous tale centred on a semi-retired sculptor (played by French screen veteran Jean Rochefort ) living in the Pyrenees during the second world war.
  • (14) She has a Rothmans cigarette constantly dangling languorously between her fingers (she once said of a potentially boring time in Kuwait: "I was politically conscious and a chain smoker - I needed no other diversions").
  • (15) It's shot in languorous, long takes, allowing you to absorb the intricacies of body language at your leisure, though with more composition and focus than something shot on handheld.
  • (16) (2) In the sitting working group, "stiffness", "pain" and "languor" of waist were recognized complicatedly.
  • (17) Still, I got more derision for liking the 19th-century-set film The House of Tolerance , about a Parisian bordello called L'Apollonide, where prostitutes provide wealthy men with languorous services.
  • (18) A black mop of shiny hair frames a face with a permanently furrowed brow, and yet there is something languorous about him.
  • (19) It arrived, characteristically, when least expected – just as the country was winding down with office Christmas parties ahead of the customary hazy summer languor of cricket, family gatherings and beach.
  • (20) After a while, languor spread to other parts of her body as well, and she was examined on April 5, 1991.