Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The habit of doing nothing or of being idle; indolence; sloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.
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- noun The state or quality of being
faineant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
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Alteration of faineant
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