Definition of idleness

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Idleness (n.) The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

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Cocagne :: Cocagne (n.) An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.
Loaf :: Loaf (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away..
Indolence :: Indolence (n.) The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity..
Unservice :: Unservice (n.) Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence.
Loaf :: Loaf (v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
Truantly :: Truantly (adv.) Like a truant; in idleness.
Fiddle :: Fiddle (v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
Laze :: Laze (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days..
Vagabondize :: Vagabondize (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
Otiosity :: Otiosity (n.) Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.
Sloth :: Sloth (n.) Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
Idleness :: Idleness (n.) The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.
Idle :: Idle (v. t.) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day..
Industry :: Industry (n.) Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them..
Inactivity :: Inactivity (n.) Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness.
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness..
Forslugge :: Forslugge (v. t.) To lsoe by idleness or slotch.
Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness..
Vagabondage :: Vagabondage (n.) The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
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