Indolence
['ɪndələns]
Definition
(n.) Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc.
(n.) 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.
Editor: Lyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Laziness, slothfulness, sloth, inertness, idleness, sluggishness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACTIVITY]
Checker: Lyman
Examples
- The lady's habits were marked by an Oriental indolence and disorder peculiarly trying to her companion. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- No individual, perhaps, ever possessed a juster understanding, or was so seldom obstructed in the use of it by indolence, enthusiasm, or authority. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. Plato. The Republic.
- And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- You like charm and indolence, so why not stay here? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- My senses were affected by it, and a voluptuous indolence began to steal over me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the next place, drunkenness and softness and indolence are utterly unbecoming the character of our guardians. Plato. The Republic.
- This is the land of eternal quiet, Where I can nestle in indolence curled, Far from the clamor of modern riot. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is indolence, Mr. Bertram, indeed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- After some days spent in listless indolence, during which I traversed many leagues, I arrived at Strasburgh, where I waited two days for Clerval. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You clever young men must guard against indolence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Eliza generally took no more notice of her sister's indolence and complaints than if no such murmuring, lounging object had been before her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In Shirley's nature prevailed at times an easy indolence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Beneath the rule of this dirty mysticism, indolence and scoundrelism mismanaged the war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When the first transports of rage which had produced his activity in seeking her were over, he naturally returned to all his former indolence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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