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Indolence is a formal, slightly old-fashioned noun for — not one tired afternoon, but a habit of not wanting to work or move. You meet it in novels and essays more than on the street; everyday English just says . Though actually, the word did not start as 'lazy'. It came from Latin indolentia, 'freedom from pain' — in- (not) plus a root meaning hurt or grieve. French and then English later bent it toward living easily, not bothering. So the tidy school gloss 'lazy' is the usual meaning now, but the older 'no pain' idea is still sitting inside the word.
怠惰、懶散（書面；日常多說「懶惰」）
組成From Middle French indolence, or Latin indolentia ('freedom from pain'): in- (not) + dolens (hurting, grieving) + -ia. Dolens is from doleo, 'to hurt, suffer, grieve'.
同家族的字
- indolentthe adjective: a lazy person or a slow, painless medical problem
- condolenceshares the Latin root for grieving or pain
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
indolencenoun/ˈɪndəl(ə)ns/
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Habitual laziness or sloth.
- After having applied my mind with more than ordinary attention to my studies, it is my usual custom to relax and unbend it in the conversation of such as are rather easy than shining companions. […] This is the particular use I make of a set of heavy honest men, with whom I have passed many hours with much indolence, though not with great pleasure. Their conversation is a kind of preparative for sleep: […]
- The sacred indolence of the monks was devoutly embraced by a servile and effeminate age; but if superstition had not afforded a decent retreat, the same vices would have tempted the unworthy Romans to desert, from baser motives, the standard of the republic.
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medicinepathologysciencesLack of pain in a tumour.
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obsoleteA state in which one feels no pain or is indifferent to it; a lack of any feeling.
- Novv, to begin vvith Fortitude, they ſay it is the meane betvveen Covvardiſe & raſh Audacitie, […] Clemencie & Mildneſſe, betvveene ſenſeleſſe Indolence and Crueltie: […]
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obsoleteA state of repose in which neither pain nor pleasure is experienced.
- Indolence, vvhich Epicure held, they eſteem not pleaſure, nor vvant of pleaſure, griefe, for both theſe conſiſt in motion; but Indolence and vvant of pleaſure conſiſts not in motion, for Indolence is like the ſtate of a ſleeping man.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。