"idleness" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈaɪdəlnəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-idleness.wav Forms: idlenesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English ydelnesse, from Old English īdelnes, from Proto-West Germanic *īdalnassī, equivalent to idle + -ness. Cognate with Old Frisian īdelnisse (“idelness”), obsolete Dutch ijdelnis, Old Saxon īdalnussi (“idleness, vanity”), Old High German ītalnissa (“idleness, vanity, emptiness”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ydelnesse}} Middle English ydelnesse, {{inh|en|ang|īdelnes}} Old English īdelnes, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*īdalnassī}} Proto-West Germanic *īdalnassī, {{suf|en|idle|ness}} idle + -ness, {{cog|ofs|īdelnisse|t=idelness}} Old Frisian īdelnisse (“idelness”), {{cog|nl|ijdelnis}} Dutch ijdelnis, {{cog|osx|īdalnussi|t=idleness, vanity}} Old Saxon īdalnussi (“idleness, vanity”), {{cog|goh|ītalnissa|t=idleness, vanity, emptiness}} Old High German ītalnissa (“idleness, vanity, emptiness”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} idleness (countable and uncountable, plural idlenesses)
  1. The state of being idle; inactivity. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being idle; inactivity): бездействие (bezdejstvie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), inactivitat (Catalan), zahálka [feminine] (Czech), ledigheid (Dutch), joutilaisuus (Finnish), oisiveté [feminine] (French), inactivité [feminine] (French), inactividade [feminine] (Galician), უსაქმურობა (usakmuroba) (Georgian), უქნარობა (uknaroba) (Georgian), უმაქნისობა (umaknisoba) (Georgian), Untätigkeit [feminine] (German), Stillstand [masculine] (German), Müßiggang (German), Untätigkeit (German), 𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹 (latei) [feminine] (Gothic), díomhaointeas [masculine] (Irish), ozio [masculine] (Italian), 한가 (han'ga) (Korean), ōtium [neuter] (Latin), ydelschipe (Middle English), ydelnesse (Middle English), bezczynność [feminine] (Polish), inatividade [feminine] (Portuguese), ócio [masculine] (Portuguese), просто́й (prostój) [masculine] (Russian), безде́лье (bezdélʹje) [neuter] (Russian), dokolica [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), inactividad [feminine] (Spanish), holganza [feminine] (Spanish), sysslolöshet [common-gender] (Swedish), ālasäññe (Tocharian B), nosdun (Volapük), segurdod (Welsh)
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  2. The state of being indolent; indolence. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being indolent): bekarçılıq (Azerbaijani), avaraçılıq (Azerbaijani), безделие (bezdelie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), indolència [feminine] (Catalan), velttous (Finnish), vetelyys (Finnish), indolence [feminine] (French), indolencia [feminine] (Galician), Trägheit [feminine] (German), Arbeitsunwilligkeit [feminine] (German), Indolenz [feminine, rare] (German), Faulheit (German), 𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹 (latei) [feminine] (Gothic), leisce [feminine] (Irish), indolenza [feminine] (Italian), pigrizia [feminine] (Italian), oziosità (Italian), dēsidia [feminine] (Latin), ydelschipe (Middle English), ydelnesse (Middle English), indolência [feminine] (Portuguese), праздность (prazdnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), леность (lenostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), indolencia [feminine] (Spanish), بىكارچىلىق (bikarchiliq) (Uyghur), trög (Volapük)
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  3. Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality): turhuus (Finnish), inutilité [feminine] (French), futilité [feminine] (French), trivialité [feminine] (French), Nutzlosigkeit (German), inutilità (Italian), ydelschipe (Middle English), ydelnesse (Middle English), бесплодность (besplodnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), бесполезность (bespoleznostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: eat the bread of idleness, love-in-idleness Related terms: idledom, idlehood, idleship

Inflected forms

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          "word": "díomhaointeas"
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          "roman": "bespoleznostʹ",
          "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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      "word": "eat the bread of idleness"
    },
    {
      "word": "love-in-idleness"
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      "name": "inh"
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      "word": "idleship"
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          "ref": "1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso:",
          "text": "For either they be puffed vp vvith pride, / Or fraught vvith enuie that their galls do ſvvell, / Or they their dayes to ydleneſſe diuide, / Or drovvnded lie in pleaſures vvaſtefull vvell, / In vvhich like Moldvvarps [i.e., moles] nouſling ſtill they lurke, / Vnmyndfull of chiefe parts of manlineſſe, / And do themſelues for vvant of other vvorke, / Vaine votaries of laeſie loue profeſſe, […]",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
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          "triviality",
          "triviality"
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          "vanity",
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          "frivolity",
          "frivolity"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezdejstvie",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "бездействие"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "inactivitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zahálka"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "ledigheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "joutilaisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "oisiveté"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inactivité"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inactividade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "usakmuroba",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "უსაქმურობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "uknaroba",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "უქნარობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "umaknisoba",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "უმაქნისობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Untätigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Stillstand"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "Müßiggang"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "Untätigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "latei",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "díomhaointeas"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ozio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "han'ga",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "한가"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ōtium"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "ydelschipe"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "ydelnesse"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bezczynność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inatividade"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ócio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prostój",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "просто́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bezdélʹje",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "безде́лье"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dokolica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inactividad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "holganza"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sysslolöshet"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "ālasäññe"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "nosdun"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "state of being idle; inactivity",
      "word": "segurdod"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "word": "bekarçılıq"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "word": "avaraçılıq"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezdelie",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "безделие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "indolència"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "word": "velttous"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "word": "vetelyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "indolence"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "indolencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Trägheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Arbeitsunwilligkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "Indolenz"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "word": "Faulheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "latei",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "leisce"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "indolenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pigrizia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "word": "oziosità"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dēsidia"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "word": "ydelschipe"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "word": "ydelnesse"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "indolência"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prazdnostʹ",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "праздность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lenostʹ",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "леность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "indolencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "bikarchiliq",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "word": "بىكارچىلىق"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "state of being indolent",
      "word": "trög"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
      "word": "turhuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inutilité"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "futilité"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trivialité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
      "word": "Nutzlosigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
      "word": "inutilità"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
      "word": "ydelschipe"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
      "word": "ydelnesse"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besplodnostʹ",
      "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бесплодность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bespoleznostʹ",
      "sense": "groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бесполезность"
    }
  ],
  "word": "idleness"
}

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