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Indolence

Indolence Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Indolence? [n] inactivity resulting from a dislike of work Synonyms \| Synonyms for Indolence: laziness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Indolence: a wise passiveness \| abeyance \| apathy \| catalepsy \| catatonia \| cautiousness \| circumspection \| contemplation \| contemplative life \| creeping \| deadliness \| deathliness \| deliberateness \| deliberation \| dilatoriness \| dolce far niente \| do-nothing policy \| do-nothingism \| do-nothingness \| dormancy \| drawl \| entropy \| ergophobia \| faineancy \| faineantise \| foot-dragging \| hoboism \| idleness \| immobility \| inaction \| inactivity \| indifference \| inertia \| inertness \| inexertion \| just being \| laggardness \| laissez-aller \| laissez-faire \| laissez-faireism \| languidness \| languor \| lassitude \| latency \| laze \| laziness \| leisureliness \| lentitude \| lentor \| lethargy \| listlessness \| lotus-eating \| meditation \| mere existence \| mere tropism \| neutralism \| neutrality \| neutralness \| noninvolvement \| nonparticipation \| nonresistance \| nonviolence \| nonviolent resistance \| oscitancy \| pacifism \| paralysis \| passive resistance \| passive self-annihilation \| passiveness \| passivism \| passivity \| pokiness \| policy \| procrastination \| quiescence \| quietism \| reluctance \| remissness \| shiftlessness \| slackness \| sloth \| slothfulness \| slouch \| slowness \| sluggardy \| sluggishness \| spring fever \| stagnancy \| stagnation \| standpattism \| stasis \| suspense \| tentativeness \| torpidity \| torpor \| vagrancy \| vegetation \| vis inertiae \| vita contemplativa \| waiting game \| watching and waiting See Also \| faineance \| idleness \| inactiveness \| inactivity \| inertia \| shiftlessness Indolence In Webster's Dictionary \In"do*lence\, n. [L. indolentia freedom from pain: cf. F. indolence.] 1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. --Bp. Hough. 2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity. Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. --Cowper. As there is a great truth wrapped up in ``diligence,'' what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word ``indolence''! This is from ``in'' and ``doleo,'' not to grieve; and indolence is thus a state in which we have no grief or pain; so that the word, as we now employ it, seems to affirm that indulgence in sloth and ease is that which would constitute for us the absence of all pain. --Trench.

Indolence Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Indolence?

[n] inactivity resulting from a dislike of work

Synonyms | Synonyms for Indolence: laziness

Indolence In Webster's Dictionary

\In"do*lence\, n. [L. indolentia freedom from pain:
cf. F. indolence.]
1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care,
   grief, etc. [Obs.]

         I have ease, if it may not rather be called
         indolence.                            --Bp. Hough.

2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or
   want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of
   ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition
   to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity.

         Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad.
                                               --Cowper.

         As there is a great truth wrapped up in
         ``diligence,'' what a lie, on the other hand, lurks
         at the root of our present use of the word
         ``indolence''! This is from ``in'' and ``doleo,''
         not to grieve; and indolence is thus a state in
         which we have no grief or pain; so that the word, as
         we now employ it, seems to affirm that indulgence in
         sloth and ease is that which would constitute for us
         the absence of all pain.              --Trench.

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