dolce far niente

1. 1.

   carefree idleness

   Broaderidleness

Questions about dolce far niente

What does dolce far niente mean?

dolce far niente means "carefree idleness".

Is dolce far niente a common word?

dolce far niente is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.