Today's Word "languor"
Mental or physical weariness
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languor \LANG-guhr; LANG-uhr\ (noun) - 1 : Mental or physical weariness or fatigue. 2 : Listless indolence, especially the indolence of one who is satiated by a life of luxury or pleasure. 3 : A heaviness or oppressive stillness of the air.
"Charles's court exuded a congenial hedonism. It was exuberant and intemperate, given to both languor and excess." -- John Brewer, 'The Pleasures of the Imagination'
Languor is from Latin languor, from languere, "to be faint or weak." The adjective form is languorous.