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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Forslugge :: Forslugge (v. t.) To lsoe by idleness or slotch.
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.
Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..
Loaf :: Loaf (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away..
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..
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.
Unservice :: Unservice (n.) Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence.
Inactivity :: Inactivity (n.) Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness.
Truantly :: Truantly (adv.) Like a truant; 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..
Idlesse :: Idlesse (n.) Idleness.
Otiosity :: Otiosity (n.) Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.
Laze :: Laze (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days..
Do-nothingness :: Do-nothingness (n.) Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
Vagabondize :: Vagabondize (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
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..
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness..
Slewth :: Slewth (n.) Sloth; 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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