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Indolence vs Sedentary - What's the difference?

indolence | sedentary |

As a noun indolence

is habitual laziness or sloth.

As an adjective sedentary is

not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.

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

    sedentary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
    • The oyster is a sedentary''' mollusk; the barnacles are '''sedentary crustaceans.
  • Not moving much; sitting around.
  • * Bishop Warburton
    • Sedentary , scholastic sophists.
  • * Beaconsfield
    • Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.
  • (obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
  • * Milton
    • The sedentary earth.
  • * Spectator
    • The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.
  • (obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
  • * Milton
    • Sedentary numbness.

    Synonyms

    * settled

    Antonyms

    * migratory * active