Both Uses of
indolent
in
The Bluest Eye
- This schoolmaster married a sweet, indolent half-Chinese girl for whom the fatigue of bearing a son was too much.†
Chpt 4indolent = lazy
- We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
Chpt 4 *indolence = laziness
Definitions:
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(1)
(indolent as in: she is naturally indolent) lazy; disinclined to work
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Indolent is also used in medicine to describe conditions (e.g., some tumors) that are slow to develop or heal and are painless. Very rarely it may refer to something that is slow and unenergetic without any connotation of laziness--such as small lapping waves.