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noun, feminine

flemme

/flɛm/

noun, feminine/flɛm/plural: flemmes

laziness; lazy person

J'ai la flemme de le faire.I can't be bothered to do it.

Synonyms: paresse, paresseux

Borrowed from Italian flemma, from Latin phlegma (“phlegm”), one of the four bodily humours, thought to cause a sluggish and unemotional nature. First attested in the late 1700s. Doublet of flegme.