indolency
English
Etymology
From Latin indolēntia.
Noun
indolency (plural indolencies)
- (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- the sect of Philosophie, that hath most preferred sensualitie, hath also placed the same but to indolencie or unfeeling of paine.
- 1689, John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration:
- Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.
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