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  • rebeca This is related to the novel Oblomov. Sep 1, 2011

  • auspice See dysania. Though the subject's will is questionable in that case. Jul 29, 2009

  • reesetee Sometimes I practice this. Oct 31, 2008

  • chained_bear I think I've dated people who practiced this. Oct 31, 2008

  • vanishedone I think I've met cats who practised this. Oct 31, 2008

  • mcgelligot Oblomovism is not so much being lazy. It is more a feeling of comfort with your own existence so deep that even obviously necessary change becomes more trouble than it is worth. Oct 31, 2008

  • rolig The Russian word itself is wonderful: Обломовщина - Oblomovshchina, with that peculiar Russian suffix -shchina, which means something like "the all-pervasive spirit/dominance of…" Jul 16, 2008

  • sionnach "Thompson had been sinking towards semi-starvation, I to the insidious Oblomovism of the country. Now we were reformed and happy."

    'The Sailor', page 71 in "Essential Stories", by V. S. Pritchett.

    (Sir Victor writes as if taking dictation from the Muse herself) Jul 16, 2008

  • reesetee Great word. Signed, Too Lazy to Look It Up. Jan 16, 2008

  • mollusque Yup, that's it. Also used as a blanket term for hibernation and estivation in a paper on Oblomovism in the Mollusca. Jan 16, 2008

  • sionnach I think it refers to the quality of being too lazy to get out of bed in the morning, derived from an eponymous character in Russian fiction. Jan 16, 2008

  • whichbe what is this? Jan 16, 2008

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