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indolency en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɪndəˌlənsi/ (General-American)
• /ˈɪndələnsi/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indolentia (“freedom from pain; insensibility”) (see further at indolence) + English -ency (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting conditions, qualities, or states).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Synonym of indolence. ▸ Habitual laziness or sloth.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of indolence. ▸ A state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.
   • Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like. 1689, [John Locke], translated by [William Popple], A Letter Concerning Toleration: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:
   • [T]he sect of Philosophie, that hath most preferred sensualitie, hath also placed the same but to indolencie or unfeeling of paine. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
3. (obsolete) Synonym of indolence. ▸ A state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.

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