[F. flânerie, f. flâner to lounge, saunter idly.] The disposition or practice of an idler or lounger.
1873. Hamerton, Intell. Life, X. vii. (1876), 371. The advantages of drill are evident and very generally recognized, but the advantages of intellectual flânerie are not so generally recognized.
1875. H. James, Transatl. Sketches, 126. It is by the aimless flânerie which leaves you free to follow capriciously every hint of entertainment that you get to know Rome.
