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. Mahatma Gandhi:

   Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.

2. Voltaire:

   You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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. Plato:

   Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

5. 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.