indolence
Betekenis (Engels)
- (uncountable, usually) Habitual laziness or sloth.
- (uncountable, usually) Lack of pain in a tumour.
- (obsolete, uncountable, usually) A state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.
- (obsolete, uncountable, usually) A state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.
Teenoorgestelde van
application, diligence, hardworkingness, industriousness, industry
Sinonieme
habit of idleness
Vertalings
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈɪndəl(ə)ns/
Etimologie (Engels)
Borrowed from Middle French indolence, or from its etymon Latin indolentia (“freedom from pain; insensibility”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + dolēns (“hurting, suffering; grieving, lamenting”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Dolēns is the present participle of doleō (“to hurt, suffer; to be sorry, deplore, grieve for, lament”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”).
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