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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..

Rouse :: Rouse (v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions..

Unservice :: Unservice (n.) Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence.

Lorette :: Lorette (n.) In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Vagabondage :: Vagabondage (n.) The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.

Otiosity :: Otiosity (n.) Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.

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

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

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..

Slewth :: Slewth (n.) Sloth; idleness.

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

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..

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