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Idleness

I'DLENESS

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Noun.
Abstinence from labor or employment; the state of a person who is unemployed in labor, or unoccupied in business; the state of doing nothing. Idleness is the parent of vice.
Through the idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. Eccles.10.
1.
Aversion to labor; reluctance to be employed, or to exertion either of body or mind; laziness; sloth; sluggishness. This is properly laziness; but idleness is often the effect of laziness, and sometimes this word may be used for it.
2.
Unimportance; trivialness.
Apes of idleness.
3.
Inefficacy; uselessness. [Little used.]
4.
Barrenness; worthlessness. [Little used.]
5.
Emptiness; foolishness; infatuation; as idleness of brain. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

idleness

idleness

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Noun

idleness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural idlenesses)

  1. The state of being idle; inactivity.
  2. The state of being indolent; indolence.
  3. Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality.

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Etymology

idle +‎ -ness

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