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the body's polite refusal to participate in your ambitious plans today
means a pleasant or dreamy state of heaviness, tiredness, and reluctance to move or exert oneself
from From Latin languor, 'faintness, weariness,' built on the verb languere, 'to be weak or droop' — a cousin of laxus ('loose, slack') and the source of words like 'languish.' It drifted into English through Old French, carrying with it the sense of a body gone soft and unhurried, the way a plant wilts in afternoon heat.
- latin root
- from languere, meaning to be faint or weak
- not laziness
- implies dreamy heaviness, not moral failure
- tropical staple
- haunts colonial novels set in sweltering heat
- poetic favorite
- Keats and Tennyson adored its drowsy weight
the siesta — spanish afternoon rest tradition where businesses close 2-4pm in towns like madrid and barcelona
lotus eaters greek myth — odyssey characters who ate lotus flowers in north africa and lost all motivation to leave
venetian gondola rides — slow-paced canal journeys through venice that epitomize leisurely, dreamy movement through water