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faineance

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Faineance \Fai"ne*ance\, Faineancy \Fai"ne*an*cy\, n. [Cf. OF.
   faineance. See {Fain['e]ant}.]
   Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.

         The mask of sneering faineance was gone. --C. Kingsley.

Source : WordNet®

faineance
     n : the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work [syn: {idleness}]
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