Bp. Hough.
2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of
exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to
toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth;
inactivity.
Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad.
Cowper.
As there is a great truth wrapped up in "diligence," what a lie, on
the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word
"indolence"! This is from "in" and "doleo," not to grieve; and
indolence is thus a state in which we have no grief or pain; so
that the word, as we now employ it, seems to affirm that indulgence
in sloth and ease is that which would constitute for us the absence
of all pain.
Trench.
In"do*len*cy (?), n. Indolence. [Obs.] Holland.
In"do*lent (?), a. [Pref. in- not + L. dolens, -entis, p. pr. of dolere
to feel pain: cf. F. indolent. See Dolorous.]