Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Do-nothingness
{
Do′-nothˊing-ism
,Do′-nothˊing-ness
, }Noun.
Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
[Jocular]
Carlyle. Miss Austen.
Definition 2024
do-nothingness
do-nothingness
English
Noun
do-nothingness (uncountable)
- inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
- Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness would have been much more suited to her capacity than the exertions and self-denials of the one which her imprudent marriage had placed her in.
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park