indolence

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪndəl(ə)ns/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪndl̩(ə)ns/
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• General-American: /ˈɪndl̩əns/
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Borrowed from Middle French indolence, or from its etymon Latin indolentia (“freedom from pain; insensibility”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + dolēns (“hurting, suffering; grieving, lamenting”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Dolēns is the present participle of doleō (“to hurt, suffer; to be sorry, deplore, grieve for, lament”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh1- (“to divide, split”).

95 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بُطْء (buṭʔ) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Aramaic: ܒܛܝܠܘܬܐ — habitual laziness or sloth
• Azerbaijani: bekarçılıq — habitual laziness or sloth
• Bashkir: ялҡаулыҡ (yalqawlıq) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Bengali: অকরণ (okron) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Bulgarian: ленивост (lenivost) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Bulgarian: мързел (mǎrzel) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Cebuano: tapól — habitual laziness or sloth
• Danish: indolens — habitual laziness or sloth
• Danish: ligegyldighed — habitual laziness or sloth
• Danish: sløvhed — habitual laziness or sloth
• Dutch: loomheid — habitual laziness or sloth
• Dutch: slapheid — habitual laziness or sloth
• Dutch: sloomheid — habitual laziness or sloth
• Dutch: traagheid — habitual laziness or sloth
• Finnish: laiskuus — habitual laziness or sloth
• French: indolence — habitual laziness or sloth
• French: oisiveté — habitual laziness or sloth
• Old French: accide — habitual laziness or sloth
• Galician: indolencia — habitual laziness or sloth
• Galician: doca — habitual laziness or sloth
• Galician: galbana — habitual laziness or sloth
• Galician: nugalla — habitual laziness or sloth
• Galician: preguiza — habitual laziness or sloth
• Georgian: სიზარმაცე (sizarmace) — habitual laziness or sloth
• German: Indolenz — habitual laziness or sloth
• German: Müßiggang — habitual laziness or sloth
• German: süßes Nichtstun — habitual laziness or sloth
• German: Trägheit — habitual laziness or sloth
• Greek: απραγμοσύνη (apragmosýni) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Greek: νωθρότητα (nothrótita) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Greek: ραθυμία (rathymía) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Ancient Greek: νωθρεία (nōthreía) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Ancient Greek: ῥᾳστώνη (rhāistṓnē) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Hindi: अकर्मण्यता (akarmaṇyatā) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Hindi: सुस्ती (sustī) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Irish: sácráilteacht — habitual laziness or sloth
• Italian: indolenza — habitual laziness or sloth
• Italian: ignavia — habitual laziness or sloth
• Italian: malvolere — habitual laziness or sloth
• Italian: neghienza — habitual laziness or sloth
• Italian: neghittaggine — habitual laziness or sloth
• Italian: neghittosità — habitual laziness or sloth
• Italian: pigrezza — habitual laziness or sloth
• Italian: poltronaggine — habitual laziness or sloth
• Italian: poltroneria — habitual laziness or sloth
• Japanese: 惰気 (daki) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Latin: dēsidia — habitual laziness or sloth
• Latin: frīgus — habitual laziness or sloth
• Latin: ignāvia — habitual laziness or sloth
• Latin: inertia — habitual laziness or sloth
• Latin: ōtium — habitual laziness or sloth
• Latin: pigrēdō — habitual laziness or sloth
• Latin: pigritia — habitual laziness or sloth
• Latin: sēgnitia — habitual laziness or sloth
• Latin: sōcordia — habitual laziness or sloth
• Macedonian: де́нгуба (dénguba) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Macedonian: мр́зливост (mŕzlivost) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Manx: neuvree — habitual laziness or sloth
• Māori: rare — habitual laziness or sloth
• Marathi: सुस्ती (sustī) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Polish: gnuśność — habitual laziness or sloth
• Polish: opieszałość — habitual laziness or sloth
• Portuguese: indolência — habitual laziness or sloth
• Romanian: indolență — habitual laziness or sloth
• Romanian: lene — habitual laziness or sloth
• Romanian: moliciune — habitual laziness or sloth
• Russian: ле́ность (lénostʹ) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Russian: пра́здность (prázdnostʹ) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Scottish Gaelic: leisg — habitual laziness or sloth
• Serbo-Croatian: индолѐнција — habitual laziness or sloth
• Serbo-Croatian: индолѐнтно̄ст — habitual laziness or sloth
• Serbo-Croatian: лењост — habitual laziness or sloth
• Serbo-Croatian: лије́но̄ст — habitual laziness or sloth
• Serbo-Croatian: тро̏мо̄ст — habitual laziness or sloth
• Serbo-Croatian: indolèncija — habitual laziness or sloth
• Serbo-Croatian: indolèntnōst — habitual laziness or sloth
• Serbo-Croatian: lenjost — habitual laziness or sloth
• Serbo-Croatian: lijénōst — habitual laziness or sloth
• Serbo-Croatian: trȍmōst — habitual laziness or sloth
• Spanish: indolencia — habitual laziness or sloth
• Swedish: indolens — habitual laziness or sloth
• Swedish: lojhet — habitual laziness or sloth
• Swedish: slöhet — habitual laziness or sloth
• Tagalog: kabatuganan — habitual laziness or sloth
• Tamil: அசமந்தம் (acamantam) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Telugu: అలసత (alasata) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Tocharian B: ālasäññe — habitual laziness or sloth
• Ottoman Turkish: تنبللك (tembellik) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Ottoman Turkish: هایلازلق (haylazlık) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Ottoman Turkish: كسل (kesel) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Urdu: سُسْتِی (sustī) — habitual laziness or sloth
• Finnish: indolenssi — lack of pain in a tumour
• Finnish: kivuttomuus — lack of pain in a tumour
• German: Indolenz — lack of pain in a tumour