Indolence

3 definitions found

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

  Indolence \In"do*lence\, n. [L. indolentia freedom from pain:
     cf. F. indolence.]
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     1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care,
        grief, etc. [Obs.]
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              I have ease, if it may not rather be called
              indolence.                            --Bp. Hough.
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     2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or
        lack of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of
        ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition
        to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity.
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              Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad.
                                                    --Cowper.
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              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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indolence
       n : inactivity resulting from a dislike of work [syn: {laziness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "indolence":
     a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia,
     cautiousness, circumspection, contemplation, contemplative life,
     creeping, deadliness, deathliness, deliberateness, deliberation,
     dilatoriness, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness,
     dolce far niente, 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