Definitions for indolence
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. indolence, lazinessnoun

   inactivity resulting from a dislike of work

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1. indolencenoun

   Habitual laziness or sloth.

2. Etymology: First attested 1603, from French indolence, insensitivity to pain, from Latin indolentia, insensibility, from in- not + dolere to grieve. Sense of laziness, first attested 1710, is related to taking pains.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Indolence, Indolencynoun

   Etymology: in and doleo, Latin; indolence, French.

   1. Freedom from pain.

   As there must be indolency where there is happiness, so there must not be indigency. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   2. Laziness; inattention; listlessness.

   Let Epicurus give indolency as an attribute to his gods, and place in it the happiness of the blest: the divinity which we worship has given us not only a precept against it, but his own example to the contrary. Dryden.

   The Spanish nation, roused from their ancient indolence and ignorance, seem now to improve trade. Henry St. John Bolingbroke.

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1. indolence

   Indolence is a state of laziness or a tendency to avoid effort or work. It is a disposition to be inactive or idle.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Indolencenoun

   freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc

2. Indolencenoun

   the quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity

3. Etymology: [L. indolentia freedom from pain: cf. F. indolence.]

Matched Categories

1. • Inactiveness

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1. endocline

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of indolence in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of indolence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of indolence in a Sentence

1. Plato:

   Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

2. Mahatma Gandhi:

   Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

3. Sir B. Brodie:

   The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

4. Franz Kafka:

   There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

5. Thomas Chandler Haliburton:

   Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=indolence
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Indolence
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=indolence
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indolence