faineantisen.
/ˌfɛneɪɒnˈtiːz/ ‘Do-nothing-ness’; indisposition to do anything; indifference, inactivity.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun]
accidiaOE
accidie?c1225
lethargyc1380
faintness1398
lithernessc1425
listlesshedec1440
owlisthead1440
supinity1548
lustlessness1556
benumbedness1566
phlegm1578
apoplexy1589
acedia1607
torpor1607
drowsiness1611
torpidity1614
languishmentc1620
hebetude1621
acedy1623
inerty1623
supineness1640
listlessness1646
cadaveriety1651
inertitude1656
oscitation1656
torpulency1657
sopor1658
phlegmaticness1659
lethargicalness1664
torpidnessa1676
faineantisea1684
phlegmatism1688
vis inertiae1710
torpitude1713
moonery1764
donothingness1814
benumbment1817
inertia1821
languor1825
donothingism1839
Mondayishness1850
mooniness1852
mooning1857
fainéantisme1873
sog1874
Oblomovism1902
a1684 R. Leighton Let. in Leisure Hour (1874) Dec. 805 Nor would any fatigue..have degusted me so much as our ten years fai(n)tneantise has done.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) 99 If the King had, by any Faineantise or Remissness, let their Line run into Opportunities.
1822 T. L. Peacock Maid Marian ix. 125 He had..sent all King Henry's saints about their business, or rather about their no-business, their fainéantise.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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