Indolence vs Painless - What's the difference?
indolence | painless |
Habitual laziness or sloth.
* 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 11:
* 1912 , , The Sign at Six , ch. 19:
* 2001 Sept. 10, , "
As a noun indolence
is habitual laziness or sloth.As an adjective painless is
free from pain; without pain or trouble.indolence
English
Noun
(en noun)- "It is indolence', Mr. Bertram, indeed. ' Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen."
- [H]er whole figure expressed a tense vibrant life in singular contrast to the apparent indolence of the men at whom she was talking.
In Praise of Lasiness," Time (retrieved 24 March 2014):
- [N]ow, after five weeks of doing nothing, I am an authority on the subject of indolence and glad to share my views with you.