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| | Indolency | n. Indolence. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Indolence | n. [ L. indolentia freedom from pain: cf. F. indolence. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| | | indolence | (อิน'ดะเดินซฺ) n. ความเกียจคร้าน, ความไม่เจ็บปวด, ความเจ็บปวดเล็ก ๆ น้อย ๆ |
| | | | | | Indolence | n. [ L. indolentia freedom from pain: cf. F. indolence. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| | 安佚;安逸 | [あんいつ, an'itsu] (n, adj-na) (idle) ease; idleness; indolence [Add to Longdo] | | 気無精 | [きぶしょう, kibushou] (adj-na, n) laziness; indolence [Add to Longdo] | | 勤惰 | [きんだ, kinda] (n) diligence and indolence; attendance [Add to Longdo] | | 勤怠 | [きんたい, kintai] (n) (See 出欠, 勤惰) diligence and indolence; diligence; attendance; attendance and absence [Add to Longdo] | | 三無主義 | [さんむしゅぎ, sanmushugi] (n) the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s [Add to Longdo] | | 惰気 | [だき, daki] (n) indolence; listlessness [Add to Longdo] | | 惰眠 | [だみん, damin] (n) indolence; inactivity [Add to Longdo] | | 怠け癖;怠けぐせ | [なまけぐせ, namakeguse] (n) habit of idleness (laziness); indolence [Add to Longdo] | | 無精(P);不精 | [ぶしょう, bushou] (adj-na, n) indolence; laziness; sloth; (P) [Add to Longdo] | | 優々閑々;優優閑閑;悠々緩々;悠悠緩緩;悠々閑々;悠悠閑閑 | [ゆうゆうかんかん, yuuyuukankan] (adj-t, adv-to) composed and unhurried; easygoing and leisurely; in indolence [Add to Longdo] |
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