Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man.

For Keats, neither Love nor Ambition nor even Poesy contain joy "so sweet as drowsy noons,/And evenings steep'd in honied indolence." Although indolence [from the Latin for "feeling no pain"] strongly resembles habitual laziness, or sluggishness, it's less a physical aversion to activity or effort than it is a romantic repudiation of what Keats calls "the voice of busy common-sense." To the idler, nothing is so precious as what Bergson calls "duration": time divorced from productive operations, and dedicated instead to contemplation and reverie. See: FREE TIME, IDLENESS, USELESS, LANGUID, LIMPSY, OTIOSE, UKULELE IKE.

(IN-doe-lint) A type of cancer that grows slowly.

Free from toil, pain, or trouble.

Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.

slow in growth or development accompanied by little or no pain

Describes a category of NHL that represents low grade or slowgrowing disease.