Indolence

Quick meaning: Indolence is a noun meaning Habitual laziness or sloth.

Meaning

Habitual laziness or sloth.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Heedless of the rights of fellows and founders' bequests, of sleepy dignities and established indolences, they re-established long-dormant lectures in the colleges.

He [Samuel Johnson] ſeemed to learn by intuition; for though indolence and procraſtination vvere inherent in his conſtitution, vvhenever he made an exertion he did more than any one elſe.

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.

To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.

Word Forms

• indolences

Synonyms for indolence

Depending on context, synonyms include accidie, idleness, inapplication, indolency, inexertion, noynoying.

Antonyms for indolence

Common opposites include application, diligence, hardworkingness, industriousness, industry.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include laziness, sluggishness, slowness, inertia, indolency, idleness.

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