Idleness. Obsolete.

The state or condition of being idle or unoccupied; want of occupation; habitual avoidance of work, inactivity, indolence; an instance of this. (Now…

Leisure, idleness. Also in over emptiness: idly, in vain, without cause. Cf. empty, adj. 1a. Obsolete. rare.

Idleness.

Idleness.

Inactivity, want of occupation, indolence.

The condition or state of being unoccupied or inactive; ease; idleness, laziness; redundancy, ineffectuality.

Idleness.

= idleness, n. 4.

The condition of being reduced to idleness; want of employment.

The state or fact of being fallow; (figurative) idleness, intellectual or artistic unproductiveness.

Vacancy, idleness, inoccupation.

The state or condition of being free from or unoccupied with work, business, or action; absence of occupation; idleness; inactivity.

English regional (chiefly Cornwall and northern). In singular and plural. Frequently with the. Idleness, laziness, esp. regarded humorously or…

figurative. Vacuity of existence; want of active interest; idleness, inaction.

Want of occupation; unoccupied condition.

Lack of occupation; idleness.