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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
languor is a noun meaning "a relaxed comfortable feeling". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a relaxed comfortable feeling
oppressively still air
“the afternoon was hot, quiet, and heavy with languor”
“Summer shows all the languor of a hot, breezeless day as the dancer lazily brushes her hand over her brow”
a feeling of lack of interest or energy
inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
“the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for languor come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.