About The Word Idleness

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Idleness

Idleness Meaning & Definition
Idleness Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Idleness?

[n] having no employment
[n] the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work

Synonyms | Synonyms for Idleness: faineance | idling | loafing

Related Terms | Find terms related to Idleness: a wise passiveness | big deal | cautiousness | circumspection | contemplation | contemplative life | creeping | dawdling | deliberateness | deliberation | dolce far niente | do-nothing policy | do-nothingism | do-nothingness | dormancy | drawl | emptiness | flimsiness | foolishness | foot-dragging | frivolity | frivolousness | futility | idle hands | idle hours | immobility | inaction | inactivity | inanity | indolence | inertia | inertness | inoccupation | laissez-aller | laissez-faire | laissez-faireism | languor | lassitude | laze | laziness | lazing | leisureliness | lentitude | lentor | lethargy | levity | lightness | loafing | lollygagging | malingering | meditation | neutralism | neutrality | neutralness | noninvolvement | nonparticipation | nonresistance | nonviolence | nonviolent resistance | nugacity | otiosity | pacifism | paralysis | passive resistance | passive self-annihilation | passiveness | passivism | passivity | pokiness | policy | procrastination | quiescence | quietism | reluctance | shallowness | shiftlessness | shilly-shallying | shirking | silliness | slackness | slenderness | slightness | sloth | slothfulness | slouch | slowness | sluggardy | sluggishness | stagnancy | stagnation | standpattism | stasis | superficiality | tentativeness | torpor | triflingness | triteness | triviality | trivialness | unemployment | vacuity | vanity | vapidity | vegetation | vita contemplativa | waiting game | watching and waiting

See Also | dolce far niente | inactivity | indolence | laziness

Idleness In Webster's Dictionary

\I"dle*ness\, n. [AS. [=i]delnes.] The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness. Syn: Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth.

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