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Idlesse :: Idlesse (n.) 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.

Inactivity :: Inactivity (n.) Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness.

Sloth :: Sloth (n.) Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.

Loaf :: Loaf (v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.

Cocagne :: Cocagne (n.) An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.

Dally :: Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle..

Account :: Account (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty..

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..

Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..

Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

Pansy :: Pansy (n.) A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names..

Inaction :: Inaction (n.) Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

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

Vagabondize :: Vagabondize (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness..

Do-nothingness :: Do-nothingness (n.) Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.

Parent :: Parent (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice..

Truantship :: Truantship (n.) The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy.

Rust :: Rust (v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.

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