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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Vagabondage :: Vagabondage (n.) The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
Laze :: Laze (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days..
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..
Otiosity :: Otiosity (n.) Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.
Inactivity :: Inactivity (n.) Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness.
Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness..
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..
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness..
Parent :: Parent (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice..
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..
Forslugge :: Forslugge (v. t.) To lsoe by idleness or slotch.
Cocagne :: Cocagne (n.) An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.
Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..
Idlesse :: Idlesse (n.) Idleness.
Slewth :: Slewth (n.) Sloth; idleness.
Truantly :: Truantly (adv.) Like a truant; in 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.
Sloth :: Sloth (n.) Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
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..
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