Indolence

Noun

 * 1) Habitual laziness or sloth.
 * born with an incurable indolence of mind and body
 * Indolence and vacillation were legibly impressed on his appearance and expression.

Synonyms

 * indolency

Related terms

 * indolent

Adjectives for Indolence
lifeless; alternate; listless; habitual; regal; dreamy; inert; bland; easy; lackadaisical.

Verbs for Indolence
avoid—; banish—; bask in—; breed—; de¬plore—; dispose to—; overcome—; pillow in —; reproach—; revel in—; shake off—; stagnate in—; stretch in—; strangle by—; wallow in—; waste in—; —demoralizes; — destroys; —ensnares; —rusts.

Thesaurus
a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cautiousness, circumspection, contemplation, contemplative life, creeping, deadliness, deathliness, deliberateness, deliberation, dilatoriness, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dolce far niente, dormancy, drawl, entropy, ergophobia, faineancy, faineantise, foot-dragging, hoboism, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indifference, inertia, inertness, inexertion, just being, laggardness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languidness, languor, lassitude, latency, laze, laziness, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, lethargy, listlessness, lotus-eating, meditation, mere existence, mere tropism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, oscitancy, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, pokiness, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, reluctance, remissness, shiftlessness, slackness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, spring fever, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, suspense, tentativeness, torpidity, torpor, vagrancy, vegetation, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

Etymology
First attested 1603, from French indolence, insensitivity to pain, from Latin indolentia, insensibility, from in- not + dolere to grieve. Sense of laziness, first attested 1710, is related to taking pains.