Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN'DO-LENCE
IN'DO-LENCE, n. [Fr. from L. indolentia; in and doleo, to be pained.]
- Literally, freedom from pain. Burnet.
- 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.
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