languidnessn.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xx. vii. 772 The languidnesse & weaknesse of the pulse [L. Pulsus, languor, ac debilitas; Fr. le pouls fort debile & languide] (by reason of the oppression of the vitall and pulsifick faculty by a cloud of grosse vapours).

1665 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold xiii. 132 This languidness of operation may perhaps proceed in great part from the smalness of the Pieces of Ice that were imploy'd.

1678 A. Wood Life 8 Jan. (1892) Colds without coffing or running at the nose, onlie a languedness and faintness.

1745 J. Wall in Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 224 The Operation of Musk much resembles that of Opium; but..it leaves not behind it any Stupor or Languidness.

1762 R. Guy Pract. Observ. Cancers 32 The seeming Languidness and Inactivity of the contained Humour.

1836 Times 29 Oct. 7/3 The market has been in a state of great languidness.

1876 Atlantic Monthly June 752/1 The occasional languidness of the narration is more than compensated by the pleasing tone the writer unfailingly maintains.

1932 Geogr. Jrnl. 80 508 The reason for this languidness in farming..lies in the lack of incentive.

1977 S. Sontag Illness as Metaphor ii. 11 TB is understood as a disease of extreme contrasts: white pallor and red flush, hyperactivity alternating with languidness.

1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xix. 141 The director spoke with customary languidness.