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INDOLENCE
Definition of INDOLENCE
noun
Habitual laziness or sloth.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French indolence, or from its etymon Latin indolentia (“freedom from pain; insensibility”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + dolēns (“hurting, suffering; grieving, lamenting”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Dolēns is the present participle of doleō (“to hurt, suffer; to be sorry, deplore, grieve for, lament”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,293)
How it is built
Same root, INDOLENCE · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
INDOLENCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
INDOLENCE starts with I and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEEILNNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once.
Words that start INDOLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found INDOLENCE?
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