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Languor

A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

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Apathy 76% connected

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Easiness 76% connected

The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Inactivity 76% connected

The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Inertia 76% connected

That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direc…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Relaxation 76% connected

The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wind 76% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dreamy 74% connected

Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dreamy 74% connected

Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dreaminess 92% connected

The state of being dreamy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Flatness 92% connected

The quality or state of being flat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lassitude 92% connected

A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; deb…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lethargy 92% connected

Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Phlegm 92% connected

One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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