indolency

English

Etymology

From Latin indolēntia.

Noun

indolency (plural indolencies)

  1. (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
    • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      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.

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