释义
[ ahy -dl-nis ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈaɪ dl nɪs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun the quality, state, or condition of being lazy, inactive, or idle: His lack of interest in the larger world and his consummate idleness were the causes of their dreadful divorce.
Origin of idleness before 1000; idle + -ness
Words nearby idleness -idium, IDK, idle, idle character, idle gear, idleness , idle pulley, idler, idler shaft, idlesse, idle time
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Example sentences from the Web for idleness Indeed, idleness , for Russell, is a state one reaches by escaping the encompassing world.
The Professor's Reading List | Stephen L. Carter| March 3, 2009| DAILY BEAST
The immigrants were not suffered to sit in idleness all that afternoon.
South from Hudson Bay | E. C. [Ethel Claire] Brill
With an idleness that visited her only at early day-break, she wondered what it was.
A Christmas Accident and Other Stories | Annie Eliot Trumbull
He tells the envious that the fame of Poets is immortal, and that theirs is not a life devoted to idleness .
The Amores, or Amours | Ovid
The poverty here indeed is great, but idleness and laziness are far greater.
Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther | Martin Luther
With nothing that could be done, he felt no pangs in idleness .
The Lone Ranger Rides | Fran Striker
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Words related to idleness sluggishness, torpidity, lethargy, slouch, truancy, dormancy, slothfulness, loafing, torpor, sloth, leisure, inertia, trifling, inactivity, stupor, shiftlessness, slowness, indolence, dawdling, unemployment