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Oblomovitis

Oblomovitis noun: indolent apathy.

Noun

Oblomovitis (uncountable)

  1. Indolent apathy.

Origin of Oblomovitis

From Oblomov + -itis, after the nobleman who rarely leaves his bed in Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov (1859).

Questions about Oblomovitis

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

Words near Oblomovitis in the dictionary

  1. obloids
  2. Oblomovian
  3. Oblomovism
  4. Oblomovist
  5. Oblomovists
  6. Oblomovitis
  7. oblong
  8. oblong number
  9. oblong numbers
  10. oblonga
  11. oblongata

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