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LANGUOR
Definition of LANGUOR
noun
A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; an instance of this.
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Where it comes from
The noun is derived from Middle English langore, langour (“disease, illness; misery, sadness; suffering; condition or event causing sadness, suffering, etc.; unwholesomeness; idleness, inertia; depression, self-disgust; expression of grief”) [and other forms], from Middle French languer, langueur, langour, and Anglo-Norman langor, langour, langur, Old French langueur, languour (“disease, illness; suffering; emotional fatigue, sadness; listlessness; stagnation”) (modern French langueur (“languor”)), and from their etymon Latin languor (“faintness, feebleness; languor; apathy”), from languēre, the present active infinitive of langueō (“to feel faint or weak; (figurative) to be idle, inactive; to be listless”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-, *(s)leh₁g-. The English word is cognate with Catalan llangor, Italian languore (“faintness, weakness; languor”), langore (obsolete), Old Occitan langor (modern Occitan langor), Portuguese langor, languor (obsolete), Spanish langor.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,656)
How it is built
Same root, LANGUOR · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Catalan, Italian, Old Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LANGUOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 78 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LANGUOR starts with L and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AGLNORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start LANGUO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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