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Indolency vs Insolency - What's the difference?

indolency | insolency |

As nouns the difference between indolency and insolency

is that indolency is (obsolete) the lack of pain; absence of pain while insolency is quality of being insolent.

indolency

English

Noun

(indolencies)
  • (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
  • *, II.12:
  • *: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.

    • insolency

    English

    Noun

    (insolencies)
  • Quality of being insolent.
  • An act of insolence.