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Indolence \In"do*lence\, n. [L. indolentia freedom from pain:
cf. F. indolence.]
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1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care,
grief, etc. [Obs.]
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I have ease, if it may not rather be called
indolence. --Bp. Hough.
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2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or
lack of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of
ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition
to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity.
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Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad.
--Cowper.
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As there is a great truth wrapped up in "diligence,"
what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of
our present use of the word "indolence"! This is
from "in" and "doleo," not to grieve; and indolence
is thus a state in which we have no grief or pain;
so that the word, as we now employ it, seems to
affirm that indulgence in sloth and ease is that
which would constitute for us the absence of all
pain. --Trench.
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