English Explanatory Dictionary

Oblomovitis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Indolent apathy.

Word forms

Oblomovitis

Etymology

From Oblomov + -itis, after the nobleman who rarely leaves his bed in Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov (1859).

Related words

Oblomovian Oblomovism Oblomovist
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