English-Thai Dictionary

indolence

N ความขี้เกียจ  kwam-ke-kiad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDOLENCE

n.[L. indolentia; in and doleo, to be pained. ] 1. Literally, freedom from pain.
2. Habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; inaction or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil. Indolence, like laziness, implies a constitutional or habitual love of ease; idleness does not.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INDOLENCE

In "do *lence, n. Etym: [L. indolentia freedom from pain: cf. F.indolence. ]

 

1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs. ] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough.

 

2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity. Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

indolence

in do lence |ˈindələns ˈɪndələns | ▶noun avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness: my failure is probably due to my own indolence.

 

Oxford Dictionary

indolence

indolence |ˈɪnd (ə )l (ə )ns | ▶noun [ mass noun ] avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness: my failure is probably due to my own indolence.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

indolence

indolence noun his musical gifts dissolved in the indolence of his nature: laziness, idleness, slothfulness, sloth, shiftlessness, inactivity, inaction, inertia, sluggishness, lifelessness, lethargy, languor, languidness, torpor, torpidity; rare otiosity; literary hebetude.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

indolence

indolence noun my failure is probably due to my own indolence: laziness, idleness, slothfulness, sloth, shiftlessness, inactivity, inaction, inertia, lifelessness, sluggishness, lethargy, languor, languidness, torpor, torpidity, slowness, dullness; remissness, negligence, slackness, laxity; rare otiosity, hebetude. ANTONYMS industriousness; energy.

 

French Dictionary

indolence

indolence n. f. nom féminin Insouciance, paresse. : Le chat s ’étire avec indolence. SYNONYME langueur ; nonchalance . Note Orthographique indol en ce.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

indolence

in do lence /ɪ́nd (ə )ləns /名詞 U ｟かたく ｠無精 .