languor (n.)
- abeyance
- acedia
- adynamia
- anemia
- apathy
- atony
- blues
- boredom
- cachexia
- cachexy
- catalepsy
- catatonia
- cautiousness
- circumspection
- coma
- cowardice
- creeping
- deadliness
- debilitation
- debility
- deliberateness
- deliberation
- depression
- doldrums
- dormancy
- drawl
- drowsiness
- dullness
- dumps
- enervation
- enfeeblement
- ennui
- entropy
- etiolation
- exhaustion
- eyestrain
- faintness
- fatigue
- feebleness
- flabbiness
- flaccidity
- heaviness
- hebetude
- idleness
- impotence
- indifference
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- lassitude
- latency
- laziness
- leisureliness
- lenitude
- lentitude
- lethargy
- lifelessness
- listlessness
- oscitancy
- overstrain
- pandiculation
- passiveness
- passivity
- phlegm
- prostration
- reluctance
- slackness
- sleep
- sleepiness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slowness
- sluggishness
- slumber
- softness
- somnolence
- stagnancy
- stagnation
- stasis
- strain
- stretching
- stupefaction
- stupor
- suspense
- tedium
- tiredness
- torpidity
- torpidness
- torpor
- vegetation
- weakness
- weariness
- world-weariness
- yawning
Me let the tender office long engage
To rock the cradle of reposing age;
With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,
Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death;
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,
And keep awhile one parent from the sky.
