Noun: indolency
| Singular | indolency |
| Plural | indolencies |
Sample Sentences
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[T]he sect of Philosophie, that hath most preferred sensualitie, hath also placed the same but to indolencie or unfeeling of paine. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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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. [1689, [John Locke], translated by [William Popple], A Letter Concerning Toleration: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like indolency
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin indolentia (“freedom from pain; insensibility”) (see further at indolence) + English -ency (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting conditions, qualities, or states). See: Latin Nouns '
indolentia'.