Meaning of IDLENESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'Idulnus
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- [n] having no employment
- [n] the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
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| | Synonyms: | | faineance, idling, loafing |
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| | See Also: | | dolce far niente, inactivity, indolence, laziness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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