indolency
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin indolentia (“freedom from pain; insensibility”) (see further at indolence) + English -ency (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting conditions, qualities, or states).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɪndələnsi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɪndəˌlənsi/
- Hyphenation: in‧dol‧en‧cy
Noun
indolency (plural indolencies)
- (obsolete) Synonym of indolence
- Habitual laziness or sloth.
- A state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:
- [T]he sect of Philosophie, that hath most preferred sensualitie, hath also placed the same but to indolencie or unfeeling of paine.
- 1689, [John Locke], translated by [William Popple], A Letter Concerning Toleration: , London: Awnsham Churchill, , →OCLC:
- Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.
- A state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.
References
- ^ Compare “† indolency, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021.
