indolency

English

Etymology

From Latin indolēntia.

Noun

indolency (plural indolencies)

1. (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     the sect of Philosophie, that hath most preferred sensualitie, hath also placed the same but to indolencie or unfeeling of paine.

   • 1689, John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration:

     Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.

Anagrams

• dyclonine