dēsĭdĭa, ae, f. [desideo], a sitting long, remaining in a place.
I Prop. (rare), Prop. 1, 15, 6.—
II A sitting idle, idleness, inactivity, slothfulness (class.; for syn. cf.: inertia, languor, otium, pax, feriae, justitium, dies fasti, etc., and v. deses): in portum confugere non inertiae neque desidiae, Cic. Brut. 2, 8; so with inertia, id. Sest. 10, 22; with languor, id. Off. 1, 34, 123; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78; with socordia, Sall. C. 4, 1; with segnities, Suet. Galb. 9 et saep.; opp. industria, Cic. Sest. 48 fin. ; opp. agentes, Ov. R. Am. 149 et saep.: corde expelle desidiam tuo, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24: latrocinia desidiae minuendae causa fieri, * Caes. B. G. 6, 23, 6: horridus alter (ductor apium) desidiā, Verg. G. 4, 94: vitanda est improba Siren, Desidia, Hor. S. 2, 3, 15 et saep.—In plur., Lucr. 5, 48; cf.: vobis desidiae cordi, Verg. A. 9, 615.—
B Of an inanimate subject: ager post longam desidiam laetas segetes affert, lying fallow , Col. 2, 17, 3.