Definition for IN'DO-LENCE

IN'DO-LENCE, n. [Fr. from L. indolentia; in and doleo, to be pained.]

  1. Literally, freedom from pain. Burnet.
  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.

Return to page 81 of the letter “I”.