farniente

• far niente (obsolete)
• far-niente (obsolete)

Borrowed from Italian far niente (“doing nothing”), as in dolce far niente. Compare fainéant (“idler”).

• IPA^(key): /faʁ.njɑ̃t/, /faʁ.njɛn.te/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃t, -e

farniente m (countable and uncountable, plural farnientes)

1. dolce far niente, sweet idleness

   Hypernym: oisiveté

• farnienter

• “farniente” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “farniente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from Italian farniente.

farniente n (uncountable)

1. dolce far niente