About The Word Indolence
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Indolence
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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.
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