Indolence

Definition: Indolence

Indolence

Noun

1. Inactivity resulting from a dislike of work.

Date "indolence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Indolence \In"do*lence\, noun. [Latin expression indolentia freedom from pain: compare to the French expression indolence.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Indolence

Synonym: laziness (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: painlessness (medicine).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inactivity	Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.
	Idleness, remissness; Adjective: sloth, indolence, indiligence; dawdling; Verb: ergophobia, otiosity.
	Dull work; pottering; relaxation; (loosening); Castle of Indolence.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Indolence

English words defined with "indolence": Inapplication, Indolency, Inexertion ♦ Lotos-eater ♦ Otiosity ♦ Unservice. (references)

Specialty definitions using "indolence": Astræa ♦ Castaly, Castle of Indolence, Caurus ♦ Deva's Vale ♦ Lazyland ♦ Maro, Myrra ♦ Philomelus. (references)

Etymologies containing "indolence": Indolency ♦ Unservice. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Indolence" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (flabbiness, indolence, languor, laziness, listlessness, offhandedness, sloth).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	That's where complacency and indolence reside Look here, at the bridge of the nose, why do you sneer so often, Maria? (Viskningar och rop; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman)
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Domain	Title
Books	Indolence : soukromâa zprâava âuécastnâika jednâe afâery, kterâa périvodila jednomu tajemnâikovi ztrâatu stolce (reference) Liberty: The Castle of Indolence and Other Poems (reference) The Castle of Indolence, 1748 (reference) The Seasons and the Castle of Indolence (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Castle of indolence.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Thomas C. Haliburton	Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Indolence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.29% of the time. "Indolence" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.29%	33	60,273
Noun (proper)	5.71%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	35	N/A

Expression using "indolence": Castle of Indolence. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "indolence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		plogështi (angularity, apathy, idleness, inaction, inertia, languor, lassitude, phlegm, sloth, tardiness, torpor), përtesë (laziness, sloth), përtaci (idle, idleness, idling, inoccupation, laziness, slack, sloth), mefshtësi. (various references)

Arabic		‏كسل (drowse, idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, languor, lassitude, laziness, lethargy, sloth, slothful, sluggard, sluggishness), ‏غير مؤلم (painless), ‏تراخ (inaction, languor, lassitude), ‏خمول (apathy, sluggishness), ‏جمود (deadlock, immobility, inactivity, inertness, motionlessness, solid state, solidity, stagnancy, stagnation). (various references)

Bulgarian		вялост (atony, insipidity, insipidness, remissness), мързел (idleness, laziness, sloth), леност (idleness, inertia, sloth), безболезненост, безделие (idleness, laziness, vacancy). (various references)

Czech		neteènost (apathy, indifference, phlegm). (various references)

Danish		indolens (painlessness), smertefrihed (painlessness). (various references)

Dutch		indolentie (inactivity, inertia, painlessness), vadsigheid, traagheid (inertia, sluggishness), stilstand (stasis), slapte (asthenia), slapheid (compliance), loomheid (drowsiness). (various references)

Farsi		فرویش , تنبلی (Inaction, Sloth), تن اساءی (Leisure, Lounge), سستی (Droop, Inaction, Insecurity, Lassitude, Sloth), رخوت (Lassitude, Lethargy, Paralysis), راحت طلبی . (various references)

French		indolence (inactivity, inertia). (various references)

German		Trägheit (idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, inertial, inertness, lag, languidness, languishment, languor, lassitude, laziness, lethargy, phlegm, shiftlessness, sloth, sluggishness, smearing, supineness, torpidity, torpor), indolenz (painlessness). (various references)

Greek		νωθρότητα (drowsiness, dullness, inactivity, inertia, lassitude, listlessness, slackness, sloth, slovenliness, sluggishness, torpor). (various references)

Hebrew		עצלות (laziness, sloth), חבוק י�"ים (idleness, laziness, sitting with folded arms), � רפות (laziness, sloth). (various references)

Hungarian		tunyaság (accidie, enervation, inactivity, inertia, languidity, laziness, slothfulness, torpidity). (various references)

Indonesian		kelembaban (clamminess, dampness, humidity). (various references)

Italian		indolenza (idleness, laziness, painlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遊惰 , 無精 (laziness, sloth), 惰� (inactivity), 惰気 (listlessness), � け癖 (habit of idleness), 気無精 (laziness), 安逸 (ease, idleness), 安佚 (ease, idleness), 不精 (laziness, sloth). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なまけぐせ (habit of idleness), きぶしょう (laziness), ぶしょう (commanding officer, laziness, military commander, sloth), あ�"いつ (ease, idleness), ゆう� , � み�" (inactivity), � き (contemptuous, despicable, listlessness). (various references)

Manx		soaillaght (idleness, slothfulness, sumpuousness), neuvree (impotence, inefficacy, nullity), litcherys (idleness, inertia, slothfulness), litcheraght (idleness), lhiggey shaghey (condone, defer, neglect, omit, postpone), lhiastid (diffidence, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indisposition, languidness, languor, lassitude, laziness, reluctance, sloth, slowness, sluggishness), drollaneys (helplessness, laziness, shiftlessness). (various references)

Norwegian		treghet, lathet. (various references)

Pig Latin		indolenceay

Portuguese		indolência (apathy, heaviness, Idler, idling, kaif, Kef, keif, kief, laziness, lazy, sloth), indo-europeu, analgesia (analgesia, painlessness). (various references)

Romanian		insensibilitate (imperviousness, insensibility, numbness), indolenţã (carelessness, idleness, sloth), apatie (apathy, languidness, listlessness, quietude, sleepiness). (various references)

Russian		леность (laziness). (various references)

Scottish		leisg (a. better : leasg, laziness, sloth, slothfulness), aolais. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		indolencija, tromost (heaviness, laziness, listlessness, sloth, sluggishness, torpor), lenjost (laziness, sloth, work-shy), bezbolnost. (various references)

Spanish		indolencia (inactivity, inertia, painlessness, sloth, torpidness). (various references)

Swedish		indolens, slöhet (aparthy, apathy, bluntness, dulling, dullness, inertia, languor, lassitude, laziness, lethargy, sloth, spend, torpidity, torpor), lojhet (torpidity). (various references)

Turkish		uyuşukluk (deadness, dormancy, drowsiness, inertia, inertness, lethargy, numbness, sloth, sluggishness, somnolence, stupefaction, stupor, torpidity, torpidness, torpor), tembellik (dalliance, dilatoriness, idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, laziness, slackness, sloth, sluggishness, stagnancy, stagnation, vacancy), ağrısız olma, üşengeçlik (dalliance, dilatoriness, inactivity, sloth). (various references)

Ukranian		неробство (idleness, idling), нечутливість до болю. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự lười biếng (laziness, sloth, work-shy), sự biếng nhác (laziness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	frigus, pigredo, pigritiis, supervacuitas, vacuitatem, vacuitatis. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "indolence": indolences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Indolence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: endolence, idolence, Indalecio, indolen, induldence, ndolence, Nicolene, Nikolenka. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "indolence" (pronounced 'In"do*lence'): Benevolence, Condolence, Crapulence, Excellence, Feculence, Flocculence, Graveolence, Insomnolence, Lutulence, malevolence, Multivalence, Opulence, Pestilence, Prevalence, Pulverulence, Quadrivalence, Quantivalence, Superexcellence, Tetravalence, Trivalence, turbulence, Unbenevolence, Univalence. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-n-n-o"
	-2 letters: cineole, codeine, decline, eloined, leonine.
	-3 letters: ceiled, cineol, cloned, codein, codlin, coiled, coined, conine, conned, decile, docile, donnee, edenic, encode, enolic, indene, indole, linden, neoned, oleine, online.
	-4 letters: cline, clone, coden, coled, colin, coned, conin, deice, diene, dolce, dolci, donee, donne, edile, elide, eloin, indol, inned, leone, lined, linen, loden, nicol, niece, nonce.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-n-n-o"
	+1 letter: declension, indolences.
	+2 letters: condensible, declensions, nickelodeon.
	+3 letters: declensional, diencephalon, nickelodeons, unreconciled.
	+4 letters: diencephalons, nondeductible.
	+5 letters: disconnectedly, discontentedly, grandiloquence, inconsiderable, mononucleotide, nonclandestine, novemdecillion, overindulgence.
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