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idleness

n.

  1. State of being inactive

    loafing, loitering, lounging, idling, time-killing, dawdling, inertia, inactivity, indolence, sluggishness, unemployment, joblessness, torpor, otiosity, dormancy, lethargy, stupor, puttering, trifling, truancy, droning, vegetation, dallying, dalliance, shilly-shallying, dilly-dallying, fooling around*, goofing off*, lollygagging*, goldbricking*; see also leisure.

    Antonyms industry, action*, occupation. *

  2. Disinclination to activity

    slowness, indolence, slothfulness; see laziness.

Browse dictionary entries near idleness

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  1. idler
  2. idlesse
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  4. Ido
  5. idocrase
  6. idol
  7. idolater
  8. idolatrize
  9. idolatrous
  10. idolatry