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otiosity|əʊʃɪˈɒsɪtɪ|
Forms: 5–6 oci-, ocy-, osyte, -ite, -itee, -itie, 6– otiosity.
[a. OF. ociosité, occiosité (15th c. in Godef.), f. OF. occiose, ad. L. ōtiōsus at leisure, f. ōtium.]
1. The condition or state of being otiose, unemployed, or idle; ease, leisure, idleness.
1483Caxton Cato C ij b, By ouerlonge reste and ociosyte been gendred or goten..thre grete synnes..auaryce, lecherye, and ouer moche talkynge. 1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 4 The people..liue nowe in idlenesse and ociositee. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus Prol. 237 Thocht the corps ly in ociositie. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lx, A life of dignified otiosity such as became a person of his eminence. 1866S. Brooks Sooner or Later i, The happy otiosity enjoyed by the million.
2. Indolence; want of action, enterprise, or attention; negligence, carelessness, perfunctoriness.
1632Lithgow Trav. v. 172 A Towne..of small importance, in regard of..trafficke..: Want of Strangers being one let, and vitious otiosity the other stop. |