indolence
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indolence
- /ˈɪndəl(ə)ns/ UK
- /ˈɪndl̩(ə)ns/ UK
- /ˈɪndl̩əns/ US
Where it comes from
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”).
noun indolences
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Habitual laziness or sloth.
After having applied my mind with more than ordinary attention to my studies, it is my usual custom to relax and unbend it in the conversation of such as are rather easy than shining companions. […] This is the particular use I make of a set of heavy honest men, with whom I have passed many hours wi
Similar: accidie, idleness, inapplication, indolency, inexertion, noynoying, oisivity, slothfulness, sluggishness, unservice · Opposite: application, diligence, hardworkingness, industriousness, industry
- Lack of pain in a tumour.
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A state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.
Novv, to begin vvith Fortitude, they ſay it is the meane betvveen Covvardiſe & raſh Audacitie, […] Clemencie & Mildneſſe, betvveene ſenſeleſſe Indolence and Crueltie: […]
Similar: unsensibleness, indolency
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A state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.
Indolence, vvhich Epicure held, they eſteem not pleaſure, nor vvant of pleaſure, griefe, for both theſe conſiſt in motion; but Indolence and vvant of pleaſure conſiſts not in motion, for Indolence is like the ſtate of a ſleeping man.
Similar: indolency
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noun habitual laziness or sloth
| Español | indolencia |
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| 日本語 | 惰気 daki |
| हिन्दी | अकर्मण्यता akarmaṇyatā, सुस्ती sustī |
| Português | indolência |
| Français | indolence, oisiveté |
| Deutsch | Indolenz, Müßiggang, süßes Nichtstun, Trägheit |
| Italiano | indolenza, ignavia, malvolere, neghienza, neghittaggine, neghittosità |
| Ελληνικά | απραγμοσύνη apragmosýni, νωθρότητα nothrótita, ραθυμία rathymía |
| Română | indolență, lene, moliciune |
| Русский | ле́ность lénostʹ, пра́здность prázdnostʹ |
| العربية | بُطْء buṭʔ, خُمُول ḵumūl, كَسَل kasal |
noun lack of pain in a tumour
| Deutsch | Indolenz |
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title = {indolence},
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