indolência
Portuguese, noun/ĩ.doˈlẽ.sjɐ/
indolência is spelled I-N-D-O-L-Ê-N-C-I-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 88,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Indolência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “indolence (habitual laziness or sloth)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualidade de indolente”.
What does indolência mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineindolence (habitual laziness or sloth)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. qualidade de indolente 2. insensibilidade 3. apatia 4. preguiça
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of indolência
- indolências plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce indolência?
- Brazil /ĩ.doˈlẽ.sjɐ/
- Portugal /ĩ.duˈlẽ.sjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to indolência
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is indolência in Portuguese?
indolência appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).