Faineance

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Faineance \Fai"ne*ance\, Faineancy \Fai"ne*an*cy\, n. [Cf. OF.
     faineance. See {Fain['e]ant}.]
     Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.
  
           The mask of sneering faineance was gone. --C. Kingsley.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  faineance
       n : the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work [syn: {idleness}]