'Idleness' definitions:
Definition of 'idleness'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
The quality of lacking substance or value; "the groundlessness of their report was quickly recognized" [syn: groundlessness, idleness]
noun
The trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work [syn: faineance, idleness]
Definition of 'Idleness'
From: GCIDE
- Idleness \I"dle*ness\, n. [AS. [imac]delnes.] The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.
- Syn: Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'idleness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a wise passiveness,
- big deal,
- cautiousness,
- circumspection,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- creeping,
- dawdling,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dolce far niente,
- dormancy,
- drawl,
- emptiness,
- flimsiness,
- foolishness,
- foot-dragging,
- frivolity,
- frivolousness,
- futility,
- idle hands,
- idle hours,
- immobility,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- inanity,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- inoccupation,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- languor,
- lassitude,
- laze,
- laziness,
- lazing,
- leisureliness,
- lentitude,
- lentor,
- lethargy,
- levity,
- lightness,
- loafing,
- lollygagging,
- malingering,
- meditation,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- nugacity,
- otiosity,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- pokiness,
- policy,
- procrastination,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- reluctance,
- shallowness,
- shiftlessness,
- shilly-shallying,
- shirking,
- silliness,
- slackness,
- slenderness,
- slightness,
- sloth,
- slothfulness,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- sluggardy,
- sluggishness,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- superficiality,
- tentativeness,
- torpor,
- triflingness,
- triteness,
- triviality,
- trivialness,
- unemployment,
- vacuity,
- vanity,
- vapidity,
- vegetation,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting