lentor

noun — 2 senses

lentor

noun

1

Medicine, Sciences Obsolete, Usually Viscosity, thickness (chiefly of blood).

I find there was no wrong Presentation, only a Lentor in the pains perhaps […].1797 September 1, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:
There is a lentor or smoothness in the blood of healthy strong people […]1744, George Berkeley, Siris:

2

Usually Slowness, sluggishness.

[S]he walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water […].1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

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