languishment
/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃmənt/
noun
- The state or condition of being weak, feeble, or lacking vitality; a period of suffering or decline.
- The economy's languishment lasted for years, with no recovery in sight.
- The garden showed signs of languishment, with brown leaves and wilted stems everywhere.
- After weeks of fever, he fell into a languishment that worried his doctors.
- A state of sentimental longing or romantic pining.
- The poem described the languishment of a lover separated from his beloved.
- He mistook her quiet mood for languishment, but she was simply tired.
- Her languishment for her childhood home made her sad every time she thought of it.
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