Dolce far niente

GLOSSARY

Pronounced, “doll-ceh-far-nien-teh”. An Italian term referring to the pleasure one gets from carefree idleness. ‘Dolce’ means ‘sweet’, ‘far(e)’ means ‘do’, and ‘niete’ means ‘nothing’. Hence, it literally translates to the sweetness of doing nothing.

Reference:
Alpert, J. S. (2014). Dolce far niente–it is sweet doing nothing. The American Journal of Medicine, 127(7), 569.