Hypertext Webster Gateway: "faineance"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Faineance \Fai"ne*ance\, Faineancy \Fai"ne*an*cy\, n. [Cf. OF.
faineance. See {Fain['e]ant}.]
Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.

The mask of sneering faineance was gone. --C. Kingsley.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

faineance
n : the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work [syn: {idleness}]


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