indolence

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French indolence, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin indolentia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪndələns/

Noun

indolence (usually uncountable, plural indolences)

1. Habitual laziness or sloth.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 229:

     It is indolence Mr. Bertram, indeed. Indolence and love of ease—a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men Clergymen.

   • 1912, Stewart Edward White, chapter 19, in The Sign at Six:

     [H]er whole figure expressed a tense vibrant life in singular contrast to the apparent indolence of the men at whom she was talking.

   • 2001 September 10, Garrison Keillor, “In praise of laziness”, in Time^[1]:

     [N]ow, after five weeks of doing nothing, I am an authority on the subject of indolence and glad to share my views with you.

Synonyms

• indolency

Translations

Habitual laziness or sloth

• Bulgarian: ленивост f (lenivost), мързел (bg) m (mǎrzel)
• French: indolence (fr) f
• Galician: indolencia (gl) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: νωθρεία f (nōthreía)

• Italian: indolenza (it) f
• Maori: rare
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: indolência (pt) f
• Romanian: indolență (ro) f, lene (ro) f
• Russian: праздность (ru) f (prazdnostʹ), леность (ru) f (lenostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: lijenost (sh), lenjost (sh), tromost (sh)
• Swedish: indolens (sv) c, slöhet (sv) c, lojhet (sv) c

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin indolentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.dɔ.lɑ̃s/

Noun

indolence f (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) insensibility, lack of pain
2. laziness, indolence

Further reading

• “indolence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.