Antonyms for indolencein·do·lence

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1. indolencenoun

   Synonyms:
   indolency

2. indolencenoun

   Habitual laziness or sloth.

   Synonyms:
   indolency

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. indolence

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Inactiveness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. indolence, lazinessnoun

   inactivity resulting from a dislike of work

   Synonyms:
   acedia, laziness, sloth

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1. indolencenoun

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

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. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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