(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.
Stupor
Definition:
(n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
(n.) Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Example Sentences:
(1) On neurological examination, he showed stupor,pupils and eye position were normal.
(2) When outcome was examined in patients who were stuporous or comatose on admission, a significant increase in septal shift was found among patients with a poor outcome, but there was no significant relationship between outcome and degree of pineal or aqueductal shift.
(3) The clinical picture is near-monthly recurrence of episodes of stupor or excitement lasting about 1 or 2 weeks, which are accompanied by delusion and in some cases also by hallucinations or confusion.
(4) Mannitol intoxication is ordinarily characterized by confusion, lethargy, stupor, and if severe enough, coma.
(5) The authors describe the clinical picture of a case with a peak-wave stupor in a 16 year-old patient where the main clinical expression of this disorder was behavioural sleepiness.
(6) The central anticholinergic syndrome (CAS) includes central signs (somnolence, confusion, amnesia, agitation, hallucinations, dysarthria, ataxia, delirium, stupor, coma) and peripheral signs (dry mouth, dry skin, tachycardia, visual disturbances and difficulty in micturition).
(7) Stupor or coma at onset occurred more frequently in the IVH (62%) than in the INF (6%) or ICH (13%) groups and was reflected in significantly lower median Glasgow Coma Scores in the IVH group (7) than in the INF (15) and ICH (14) groups.
(8) Compared to saline- and endotoxin-infused rats, animals receiving the monokine mixture had no change in mean arterial blood pressure or heart rate but exhibited overt signs of morbidity including stupor and diarrhea.
(9) If rehydration is accomplished too rapidly the child becomes edematous, develops increased intracranial pressure, stupor, and convulsions.
(10) Grade II indicates disturbance of consciousness (stupor), or progressive neurological deficits, and size of hematoma less than 50 mm without acute hydrocephalus.
(11) The patient became stuporous and died 7 months after admission.
(12) Dexamethasone was administered when the increase in enzyme levels caused the patient to fall into a stupor.
(13) To determine the incidence of this pattern in children in stupor or coma, 154 portable EEGs in 111 children with mental status changes were reviewed.
(14) Increased escape behavior, heterogrooming, squeaking, and two cases of stupor were observed, suggesting possible equivalents of anxiousness.
(15) They are the stiff, stuporous confusion state, as well as the anxious, agitated confusion state.
(16) This case was compared with others in the literature for which the origin of the stuporous state have been hypothesized.
(17) In this group only three cases died due to neurological condition in grade III-IV (Stupor and Coma).
(18) The clinical signs showed: vomiting, dehydration, Kussamaul's respiration, sopor, stupor and in 5 cases a state of coma.
(19) It was considered as likely that the Delirium metabolicum represented an exogenous (organic) psychotic syndrome, and that the precipitation of the psychosis as well as its development into an enfeebled endstate was due to an organic brain lesion, while the catatoniformpsychomotor phenomena and the melancholic stupor were crystalisations of traits in the premorbid personality.
(20) It was she who refused to believe the Goan police's assertion that her daughter had merely drowned in an alcoholic, drug-induced stupor, one more hapless victim of Anjuna's dark underworld.