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.