IN'DOLENCE, noun [Latin indolentia; in and doleo, to be pained.] 1. Literally, freedom from pain. 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.
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