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indolence.

Habitual laziness or sloth.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɪndəl(ə)ns/Received-Pronunciation/ˈɪndl̩(ə)ns/Received-Pronunciation/ˈɪndl̩əns/General-American
  1. Habitual laziness or sloth.

    uncountable · usually
  2. Lack of pain in a tumour.

    uncountable · usually
  3. A state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.

    obsolete · uncountable · usually
  4. A state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.

    obsolete · uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Middle French indolence, or from its etymon Latin indolentia (“freedom from pain; insensibility”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + dolēns (“hurting, suffering; grieving, lamenting”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Dolēns is the present participle of doleō (“to hurt, suffer; to be sorry, deplore, grieve for, lament”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”).

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