3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Indolence \In"do*lence\, noun [L. indolentia freedom from pain:
cf. F. indolence.]
1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care,
grief, etc. [Obs.]
I have ease, if it may not rather be called
indolence. --Bp. Hough.
2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or
lack of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of
ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition
to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity.
Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad.
--Cowper.
As there is a great truth wrapped up in
''diligence,'' what a lie, on the other hand, lurks
at the root of our present use of the word
''indolence''! This is from ''in'' and ''doleo,''
not to grieve; and indolence is thus a state in
which we have no grief or pain; so that the word, as
we now employ it, seems to affirm that indulgence in
sloth and ease is that which would constitute for us
the absence of all pain. --Trench.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
indolence
noun
1: inactivity resulting from a dislike of work [syn: {laziness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "indolence":
a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia,
cautiousness, circumspection, contemplation, contemplative life,
creeping, deadliness, deathliness, deliberateness, deliberation,
dilatoriness, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness,
dolce far niente, dormancy, drawl, entropy, ergophobia, faineancy,
faineantise, foot-dragging, hoboism, idleness, immobility,
inaction, inactivity, indifference, inertia, inertness, inexertion,
just being, laggardness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire,
laissez-faireism, languidness, languor, lassitude, latency, laze,
laziness, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, lethargy, listlessness,
lotus-eating, meditation, mere existence, mere tropism, neutralism,
neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation,
nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, oscitancy,
pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation,
passiveness, passivism, passivity, pokiness, policy,
procrastination, quiescence, quietism, reluctance, remissness,
shiftlessness, slackness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness,
sluggardy, sluggishness, spring fever, stagnancy, stagnation,
standpattism, stasis, suspense, tentativeness, torpidity, torpor,
vagrancy, vegetation, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa,
waiting game, watching and waiting