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Oblomovism

Oblomovism noun: indolent apathy.

Noun

Oblomovism (uncountable)

  1. Indolent apathy.

Origin of Oblomovism

From Oblomov + -ism, after the nobleman who rarely leaves his bed in Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov (1859). The term is the common English translation of the Russian term обломовщина (oblomovščina), coined by Nikolay Dobrolyubov in an essay on that novel entitled «Что такое обломовщина?» (“What is Oblomovism?”), also published in 1859.

Questions about Oblomovism

What does Oblomovism mean?
Oblomovism means indolent apathy.
What part of speech is Oblomovism?
Oblomovism is a noun.

Words near Oblomovism in the dictionary

  1. oblocutor
  2. oblocutors
  3. obloid
  4. obloids
  5. Oblomovian
  6. Oblomovism
  7. Oblomovist
  8. Oblomovists
  9. Oblomovitis
  10. oblong
  11. oblong number

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