When Something Is Indolence?

Indolence: Indolence is a noun that refers to the state or quality of languidness or slothfulness, or to the pursuit of comfort and ease. Example: Spread across a towel and asleep with a magazine over his face, the beachgoer was the epitome of indolence.

What does it mean to be indolence?

: inclination to laziness : sloth.

What makes a person indolent?

Indolent is an adjective meaning slow or lazy. It can take an indolent teenager hours to get out of bed on a weekend morning. Often it's noon before he finally comes shuffling down to breakfast in his pajamas.

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