'Indolence' definitions:
Definition of 'indolence'
(from WordNet)
noun
Inactivity resulting from a dislike of work [syn: indolence, laziness]
Definition of 'Indolence'
From: GCIDE
- Indolence \In"do*lence\, n. [L. indolentia freedom from pain: cf. F. indolence.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. --Bp. Hough. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'indolence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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