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Meaning of dolce far niente



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dolce far niente
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Italian expression which literally means "sweet doing nothing," which is fairly explicit. The term «dolce» adjective means sweet, the syncopated Italian verb 'fare', from Latin 'facere': do, and the indeterminate pronoun «niente» means nothing, from the Latin «nec entem»: no entity, not be. Synonyms: weak, lazy, idle, idle, lazy, lazy drone.

  










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