indolence
1 synonym and 5 antonyms for indolence, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A regular unwillingness to work or make an effort; laziness.
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Etymology
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,...
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