Crossword-Solution: INDOLENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Indolence | n. | Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. |
| Indolence | n. | The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity. |
We have 67 clues for the answer “INDOLENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| inactivity resulting from a dislike of work | 1 answer |
| Spring feeling. | 1 answer |
| ENDEAVOUR (ant.) | 3 answers |
| Symptom of spring fever. | 3 answers |
| Accidie | 18 answers |
| suspended animation | 18 answers |
| inertness | 19 answers |
| Laze | 25 answers |
| DEADNESS | 29 answers |
| slouch | 31 answers |
| ACEDIA | 35 answers |
| PASSIVE state | 40 answers |
| Heaviness | 42 answers |
| Doing nothing | 46 answers |
| languidness | 49 answers |
| insensitiveness | 49 answers |
| Debilitation | 50 answers |
| stoicism | 50 answers |
| mediocrity | 50 answers |
| stolidity | 50 answers |
| Tiredness | 51 answers |
| Enervation | 51 answers |
| Weariness | 52 answers |
| passiveness | 52 answers |
| Sleepiness. | 52 answers |
| insipidity | 53 answers |
| Numbness | 53 answers |
| Tedium | 54 answers |
| Doldrums | 54 answers |
| depletion | 55 answers |
| unimportance | 55 answers |
| impassivity | 56 answers |
| Sameness | 57 answers |
| Expenditure | 57 answers |
| exhaustion | 57 answers |
| Debility | 57 answers |
| drowsiness | 58 answers |
| unconcern | 59 answers |
| Boredom | 59 answers |
| Thoughtlessness? | 59 answers |
| dullness | 61 answers |
| Monotony | 61 answers |
| languorousness | 61 answers |
| CONSUMPTION ___ | 62 answers |
| slothfulness | 62 answers |
| Inertia | 63 answers |
| Sluggishness | 63 answers |
| Loitering. | 64 answers |
| Laziness | 64 answers |
| deferral | 65 answers |
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Sentences with INDOLENCE (5)
The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence.
Well, I said, and to require the help of medicine, not when a wound has to be cured, or on occasion of an epidemic, but just because, by indolence and a habit of life such as we have been describing, men fill themselves with waters and winds, as if their bodies were a marsh, compelling the ingenious sons of Asclepius to find more names for diseases, such as flatulence and catarrh; is not this, too, a disgrace? Yes, he said, they do certainly give very strange and newfangled names to diseases.
But, whatever may have been its origin—and about this I will not be positive—that name has stuck to the district in question; and it is seldom mentioned but with contempt and derision, on account of the barrenness of its soil, and the ignorance, indolence, and poverty of its people.
With his bursts of door-slamming activity, his fits of bookish indolence, his crude revolutionary dogmatizing and his flashes of precocious irony, the boy was not unlike a boisterous embodiment of his father’s theories.
Gormer’s native indolence, and the attitude of her companions, kept in habitual abeyance, were now germinating afresh in the glow of Bertha’s advances; and whatever the cause of the latter, Lily saw that, if they were followed up, they were likely to have a disturbing effect upon her own future.
Quotes with INDOLENCE (3)
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.
I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize as discipline. It is, though. It's the discipline to endure hours that you refuse to fill with anything but the possibility of poetry, though you may in fact not be able to write a word of it just then, and though it may be playing practical havoc with your life. It's the discipline of preparedness.
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).