Meaning & use
indolence
A habitual tendency to avoid effort or activity; laziness.
See it in a sentence
The long summer holidays slowly turned his ambition into pure indolence.
Her manager mistook the quiet afternoon for indolence rather than deep concentration.
A note on using this word
Indolence describes a settled character trait of avoiding effort, unlike simple tiredness after work.
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