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Oblomovism
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English
Etymology
From en Oblomov ism, after the nobleman who rarely leaves his bed in Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov (1859). The term is the common English translation of the Russian term ru обломовщина, coined by Nikolay Dobrolyubov in an essay on that novel entitled «Что такое обломовщина?» (“What is Oblomovism?”), also published in 1859.
Noun
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Indolent apathy.
Related terms
en Oblomovian
en Oblomovist
en Oblomovitis
en eponyms