indolence

Meaning

1. (uncountable, usually) Habitual laziness or sloth.
2. (uncountable, usually) Lack of pain in a tumour.
3. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) A state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.
4. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) A state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.

Synonyms

laziness

sloth

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idleness

slothfulness

inactivity

sluggishness

listlessness

dullness

inertness

ease

easiness

exhaustion

gloom

heaviness

hesitancy

inaction

inactiveness

inefficiency

inertia

laze

lethargy

lifelessness

melancholia

melancholy

negligence

nonchalance

procrastination

sadness

sale

shiftlessness

slackness

sleepiness

slovenliness

sorrow

stagnation

subtraction

supineness

tardiness

weakness

weariness

habit of idleness

apathy

depression

fatigue

acedia

grief

alarm

consternation

deduction

dejection

Translations

indolence

Trägheit

oisiveté

indolencia

Faulheit

paresse

traagheid

αδράνεια

indolenza

Müßiggang

abattement

pereza

nonchalance

inactivité

ozio

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪndəl(ə)ns/

Etymology

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”).