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Meaning of "indolency" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF INDOLENCY

ˈɪndələnsɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDOLENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Indolency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INDOLENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Laziness

Laziness is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to do so. It is often used as a pejorative; related terms for a person seen to be lazy include couch potato, slacker, and bludger. Despite Sigmund Freud's discussion of the pleasure principle, Leonard Carmichael notes that "laziness is not a word that appears in the table of contents of most technical books on psychology... It is a guilty secret of modern psychology that more is understood about the motivation of thirsty rats and hungry pecking pigeons as they press levers or hit targets than is known about the way in which poets make themselves write poems or scientists force themselves into the laboratory when the good golfing days of spring arrive." A 1931 survey found that high school students were more likely to attribute their failing performance to laziness, while teachers ranked "lack of ability" as the major cause, with laziness coming in second.

Definition of indolency in the English dictionary

The definition of indolency in the dictionary is indolence.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDOLENCY

ambivalency · chaplaincy · corpulency · covalency · equipollency · equivalency · Excellency · flatulency · multivalency · opulency · petulancy · prevalency · redolency · repellency · sanguinolency · sibilancy · somnolency · transcalency · turbulency · valency

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDOLENCY

indocile · indocility · indoctrinate · indoctrination · indoctrinator · indol · indole · indoleacetic acid · indolebutyric acid · indolence · indolent · indolently · Indologist · Indology · indometacin · indomethacin · indomitability · indomitable · indomitableness · indomitably

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDOLENCY

agency · bivalency · divalency · electrovalency · flocculency · fraudulency · monovalency · pentavalency · polyvalency · prepollency · purulency · quadrivalency · quinquevalency · succulency · tervalency · tetravalency · trivalency · truculency · univalency · virulency

Synonyms and antonyms of indolency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «indolency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INDOLENCY

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The translations of indolency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «indolency» in English.
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Indolency
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आळशीपणा
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Trends of use of indolency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDOLENCY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of indolency
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about indolency

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDOLENCY»

Discover the use of indolency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indolency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Sacred Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of Its ...
For my part, I do nat understand, how there can be any considerable degree of happiness without indolency-; nor how there can be indolency, while we have such bodies as we have now, and such an external constitution of nature. And as  ...
Thomas Burnet, 1753
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The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the ...
Free from all inconveniences; either of external Nature, or os our own-Bodies; For iny part, 1. do nat'hnsi derstand how there can be any considerable degree =0s-- happh1esi without Indolency: nor how there can be Indolency ...
Thomas Burnet, 1697
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
Only indolency is given in Coles and Blount, and occurs in Holland's Plutarch, p. 480 (R.). Indolence and indolent both occur in the Spectator, no. 100; the former is from F. indolence. Indolency is Englished from L. indolentia, freedom from pain  ...
Walter W. Skeat, 2013
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Voices from the Press: A Collection of Sketches, Essays, and ...
What a melancholy evidence of the credulity, apathy and indolency of the human mind ! The ingenious nonsense of one individual befooled the world for generations and generations ; and had not BACON lived, the wand of the enchanter, ...
James J. Brenton, 1850
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A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses ...
Now though Christ were far from both, yet He came nearer to an excess of passion than to an indolency, to a senselessness, to a privation of natural affections. Inor- dinateness of affections may sometimes make some men like some beasts; ...
Richard Chenevix Trench, 1859
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Earth Mysteries Part - 1:
Free fromall inconveniences, eitherof external Nature, or of our ownBodies. For my part, Ido not understand how there can be any considerable degreeof happiness without Indolency: nor how there can be Indolency,while we have such ...
Thomas Burnet, James Hutton, William Fairfield Warren, 2010
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The People's Democratic Guide
What a melancholy evidence of the credulity, apathy, and indolency of the human mind! The ingenious nonsense of one individual befooled the world for generations and generations; and had not Bacon lived, the wand of the enchanter, ...
‎1842
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The Works
Now though Christ were far from both, yet he came nearer to an excess of passion, than to an indolency, to a senselessness, to a privation of natural affections. Inordinateness of affections may sometimes make some men like some beasts; but ...
John Donne, Henry Alford, 1839
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The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, ...
Now though Christ were far from both, yet he came nearer to an excess of passion, than to an indolency, to a senselessness, to a privation of natural affections. Inordinateness of affections may sometimes make some men like some beasts; but ...
John Donne, 1839
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The Second Treatise of Government: And, A Letter Concerning ...
... indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands , houses, fumiture, and the like. It is the duty of the civil magistrate, by the impartial execution of equal laws, to secure unto all the people in general, and to even ...
John Locke, 1956

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDOLENCY»

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Week 2–Classical Liberalism: Contemporary Voices
If the aim of politics is to provide “commodious living” (in the words of Thomas Hobbes) or “indolency of the body” (in the words of John Locke), ... «The American Conservative, Feb 15»
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Christianity and Civil Society in China
... I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like. «Christian Post, Mar 13»
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The Contraceptive Clash: Not About Religious Rights
For Locke, the state has authority only over what he calls the individuals' “civil” interests of “life, liberty, health, indolency of body, and the possession of outward ... «Big Think, Feb 12»
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COMPARING DEFINITIONS OF FREEDOM: THE SOURCE OF OUR …
Civil liberty was substantively a matter of “life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things such as money, ... «NewsWithViews.com, Sep 11»
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John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
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. It is the ... «FlaglerLive.com, Jan 11»
REFERENCE
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