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indolence
Habitual laziness or sloth.
📑 Synonyms:
accidie
idleness
inapplication
indolency
inexertion
noynoying
oisivity
slothfulness
sluggishness
unservice
💬 Quotations
The sacred indolence of the monks was devoutly embraced by a servile and effeminate age; but if superstition had not afforded a decent retreat, the same vices would have tempted the unworthy Romans to desert, from baser motives, the standard of the republic.
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.
His resolution of marriage had been adopted in a fit of indignation; the labour of courtship did not quite suit the dignified indolence of his habits; he had but just escaped the risk of marrying a woman who could never love him, and his pride could not be greatly flattered by the termination of his amour, even if his heart had not suffered.
(pathology) Lack of pain in a tumor.
(obsolete) A state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.
(obsolete) A state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.
📑 Synonyms:
indolency