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faineance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun faineance has 1 sense
- faineance(n = noun.attribute) idleness - the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work; Array is a kind of indolence, laziness
Derived form adjective faineant1
CIDE DICTIONARY
faineance, n. [Cf. OF. faineance. See Fainéant.].
Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.
"The mask of sneering faineance was gone."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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