indolence
Meanings
Plural: indolences
Noun
- inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
- Habitual laziness or sloth.
- Lack of pain in a tumour.
- A state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.
- A state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
accidie, idleness, inapplication, indolency, inexertion, laziness, noynoying, oisivity, slothfulness, sluggishness, unsensibleness, unservice
Antonyms
application, diligence, hardworkingness, industriousness, industry
Scrabble Score: 12
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