indolences

Noun

indolence (usually uncountable, plural indolences)

1. (usually) Habitual laziness or sloth.
   • After having applied my mind with more than ordinary attention to my studies, it is my usual custom to relax and unbend it in the conversation of such as are rather easy than shining companions. […] This is the particular use I make of a set of heavy honest men, with whom I have passed many hours...1710 February 21 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele], “Friday, February 11, 1709–10”, in The Tatler, number 132; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The...

   Synonyms:

   accidie, idleness, inapplication, indolency, inexertion, noynoying, oisivity, slothfulness, sluggishness, unservice

   Antonyms:

   application, diligence, hardworkingness, industriousness, industry

2. (usually) Lack of pain in a tumour.
3. (obsolete, usually) A state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.
   • Novv, to begin vvith Fortitude, they ſay it is the meane betvveen Covvardiſe & raſh Audacitie, […] Clemencie & Mildneſſe, betvveene ſenſeleſſe Indolence and Crueltie: […]1603, Plutarch, “Of Morall Vertue”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 69

   Synonyms:

   unsensibleness, indolency

4. (obsolete, usually) A state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.
   • Indolence, vvhich Epicure held, they eſteem not pleaſure, nor vvant of pleaſure, griefe, for both theſe conſiſt in motion; but Indolence and vvant of pleaſure conſiſts not in motion, for Indolence is like the ſtate of a ſleeping man.1656, Tho[mas] Stanley, “[The Cyrenaick Sect. Aristippus.] Chap[ter] IV. His Institution of a Sect.”, in The History of Philosophy, the Second Volume, volume II, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and...

   Synonyms:

   indolency