Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Sweet idleness; pleasing inactivity.
WordNet 3.0
- n. carefree idleness
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Pursue bliss
Words for those who believe everyday should be your day in the sun. Follow your bliss!
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Thomas's Words
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Sunbeam
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the catch-all
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Interesting
Words I didn't know that might come in handy one day...
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foreign
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Derived from other languages
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Italian
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Prolagus bilby is right, in Italian it's used to describe the act of doing nothing - in a positive (or, less often, slightly ironic) way. It's often used when describing a break from a hard job.
Dopo gli esami, mi sto finalmente godendo un po' di dolce far niente.
("After my exams, I'm finally enjoying some dolce far niente"). Jun 6, 2008
bilby Also the act of (not) doing it. In fact I've heard it only used in this sense. eg. Goldoni passo' anni nel dolce far niente. Which is probably not true, sorry Carlo! Jun 6, 2008
whichbe Literally means "sweet do nothing". A person who doesn't need to work or doesn't do anything useful, either from soft indolence, apathy, negligence or just a high quality standard for wasting time and making an art of it. (Wiktionary) Jun 6, 2008