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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. inactivity resulting from a dislike of work;
[syn: indolence, laziness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Indolence \In"do*lence\, n. [L. indolentia freedom from pain: cf. F. indolence.] [1913 Webster] 1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. --Bp. Hough. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

indolence n 1: inactivity resulting from a dislike of work [syn: indolence, laziness]