Indolence is habitual laziness. A life of indolence, sunk in indolence, the indolence of a hot afternoon.
It is a settled disposition rather than a bad week, which is what the word adds. Indolence first meant freedom from pain, and the sense drifted to not troubling oneself.
1nounindolenceHabitual laziness.
“His indolence was the only consistent thing about him.”
indolence is a quality.
Latin indolentia, freedom from pain, from in-, not, plus dolere, to suffer.
Proto-Indo-European
*delh₁- — to divide, split
Latin
indolentia — freedom from pain; insensibility
Middle French
indolence
English, today
indolence
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French indolence, or from its etymon Latin indolentia (“freedom from pain; insensibility”), from in- + dolēns (“hurting, suffering; grieving, lamenting”) + -ia. Dolēns is the present participle of doleō (“to hurt, suffer; to be sorry, deplore, grieve for, lament”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European delh₁- (“to divide, split”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA