Indolence
noun
The act of avoiding work or activity due to laziness.
His indolence led to a pile of unfinished assignments.
Often appears as...
- manifest indolence
- absolute indolence
noun
A calm and peaceful feeling, resulting from a lack of activity or stimulation.
The hot sunshine induced a state of perfect indolence.
Often appears as...
- perfect indolence
- indulge in indolence
Usage tips
Literary
noun
The act of avoiding work or activity due to laziness.
His indolence led to a pile of unfinished assignments.
Often appears as...
- manifest indolence
- absolute indolence
noun
A calm and peaceful feeling, resulting from a lack of activity or stimulation.
The hot sunshine induced a state of perfect indolence.
Often appears as...
- perfect indolence
- indulge in indolence
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Indolence usually implies a critical view towards someone's lack of action due to laziness.
Her indolence at work was noted by all her colleagues.
Pro Tip 2/3Collocations Matter
Certain words frequently accompany 'indolence,' altering the phrase's impact or specificity.
His habitual indolence has become a real problem for the team.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Usage
In today's context, 'indolence' often relates to someone's work or productivity.
Indolence in the workplace can lead to serious consequences.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Indolence usually implies a critical view towards someone's lack of action due to laziness.
Her indolence at work was noted by all her colleagues.
Pro Tip 2/3Collocations Matter
Certain words frequently accompany 'indolence,' altering the phrase's impact or specificity.
His habitual indolence has become a real problem for the team.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Usage
In today's context, 'indolence' often relates to someone's work or productivity.
Indolence in the workplace can lead to serious consequences.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Indolence usually implies a critical view towards someone's lack of action due to laziness.
Her indolence at work was noted by all her colleagues.
Pro Tip 2/3Collocations Matter
Certain words frequently accompany 'indolence,' altering the phrase's impact or specificity.
His habitual indolence has become a real problem for the team.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Usage
In today's context, 'indolence' often relates to someone's work or productivity.
Indolence in the workplace can lead to serious consequences.
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Quote examples
J. C. Ryle
English Clergyman
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Dorothea Dix
American Activist
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
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Rem Koolhaas
Dutch Architect
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
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Abu Bakr
Leader
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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Mahavira
Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
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John Mason Brown
American Critic
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Canadian Author
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
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Luc de Clapiers
French Writer
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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J. C. Ryle
English Clergyman
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Dorothea Dix
American Activist
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
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Rem Koolhaas
Dutch Architect
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
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Abu Bakr
Leader
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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Mahavira
Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
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John Mason Brown
American Critic
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Canadian Author
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
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Luc de Clapiers
French Writer
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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