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Indolence vs Petulance - What's the difference?

indolence | petulance |

As nouns the difference between indolence and petulance

is that indolence is habitual laziness or sloth while petulance is the property of being petulant.

indolence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Habitual laziness or sloth.
  • * 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 11:
    • "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."
  • * 1912 , , The Sign at Six , ch. 19:
    • [H]er whole figure expressed a tense vibrant life in singular contrast to the apparent indolence of the men at whom she was talking.
  • * 2001 Sept. 10, , " 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.

    Synonyms

    * indolency

    Related terms

    * indolent

    petulance

    English

    Noun

  • The property of being petulant.
  • * Clarendon
    • Like pride in some, and like petulance in others.
  • * Cowper
    • The lowering eye, the petulance , the frown.
  • * 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 29 (ISBN 1857150570)
    • She had not done this, but had shown herself angry and sore, and was now ashamed of her own petulance , and yet unable to discontinue it.