Synonyms for indolence
in·do·lence

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1. indolencenoun

   Synonyms:
   indolency

2. indolencenoun

   Habitual laziness or sloth.

   Synonyms:
   indolency

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1. indolence

   Synonyms:
   changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, neglect, negligence, remissness, sloth

   Antonyms:
   application, assiduity, attention, constancy, diligence, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, labor, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness

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1. indolence, lazinessnoun

   inactivity resulting from a dislike of work

   Synonyms:
   acedia, laziness, sloth

Matched Categories

1. • Inactiveness

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1. indolencenoun

   Synonyms:
   laziness, slothfulness, sloth, inertness, idleness, sluggishness

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1. indolencenoun

   Synonyms:
   idleness, laziness, indulgence, sloth, inactivity, faineance

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1. List of paraphrases for "indolence":

   inertia

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How to use indolence in a sentence?

1. Sir B. Brodie:

   The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

2. Jean de la Bruyere:

   Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

3. Benjamin Haydon:

   The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

4. Franz Kafka:

   There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

5. John Osborne:

   Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.