[f. LANGUID a. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being languid; languor.
1665. Boyle, Exp. Hist. Cold, xiii. (1683), 132. This languidness of operation may perhaps proceed in great part from the smalness of the Pieces of Ice that were imploy’d.
1678. Wood, Life, 8 Jan. Colds without coffing or running at the nose, onlie a languedness and faintness.
1744. Wall, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 224. The Operation of Musk much resembles that of Opium; but … it leaves not behind it any Stupor or Languidness.
1762. R. Guy, Pract. Obs. Cancers, 32. The seeming Languidness and Inactivity of the contained Humour.
