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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: faineance n : the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work [syn: {idleness}]
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