idleness
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4.5
- noun
- /ˈaɪdlnəs/
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inactividad
- The company encourages productivity rather than idleness among employees to achieve better results.
- enforced idleness
- love of idleness
On the other, poverty, idleness, disgrace.
- On the other, poverty, idleness, disgrace.
- Isolation, mental anguish, idleness, bullying, self harm, violence, suicide.
- So I decided to write this book after I taught a class on promoting good idleness.
- It's a lot of idleness, it's a lot of self doubt, you know, And so that was probably the lowest moment.
Examples
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During the summer break, the children spent their days in idleness, enjoying the freedom from schoolwork.
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When she first arrived, any feeling of idleness here had worried her.
Fiction book (1997) -
There are too many people in town... too much idleness.
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But there is no reward for idleness.
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The most effective rest cure is not idleness; it is a complete change of occupation.
Fiction book (1993) -
For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.
Blog text (26) -
This means endless hours of idleness, with little useful work and limited prospects for rehabilitation.
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Poverty waits at the gates of idleness.
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The reconstruction was something to prevent idleness, that breeding ground of resentment.
Fiction book (1999) -
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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1.4
A tendency to avoid work and use little energy
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4.6
Not wanting to work or make an effort
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3.5
A period of time with no movement or action
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6.3
A feeling of tiredness and low energy
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4.4
A state of being slow and having little energy
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8.1
A habit of not wanting to work or try hard
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5.0
Spending time doing nothing instead of working
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8.1
A habit of not wanting to work or make any effort
A habit of not wanting to work
A period of not doing anything or moving
A lack of desire to work or try hard
Spending most of the day sitting and moving very little
Antonyms
Compounds
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9.9
A common European wildflower with purple, yellow and white flowers that garden pansies come from
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Etymology
Idleness comes from the old word idle, which meant 'empty' or 'not doing anything', and the ending -ness turns it into the 'state of' being idle. So, think of an empty hour to remember that idleness is the state of not working or being inactive.