Synonyms for Idleness
idle·ness

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1. idleness

   Synonyms:
   inaction, inactivity, relaxation, rest

   Antonyms:
   act, action, activity, application, drill, employment, exercise, exertion, occupation, operation, performance, practise, use

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1. idleness, idling, loafingnoun

   having no employment

   Synonyms:
   faineance, groundlessness, idleness, idling, loafing

2. groundlessness, idlenessnoun

   the quality of lacking substance or value

   "the groundlessness of their report was quickly recognized"

   Synonyms:
   faineance, groundlessness, idleness, idling, loafing

3. faineance, idlenessnoun

   the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work

   Synonyms:
   faineance, groundlessness, idleness, idling, loafing

Matched Categories

1. • Indolence

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1. idlenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   indolence, sloth, inaction, laziness, futility, vanity

   Associated words:
   cocagne

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1. List of paraphrases for "idleness":

   inactivity, laziness, sloth, idle

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How to use Idleness in a sentence?

1. Brenda Ueland:

   I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

2. Sir John Lubbock:

   Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

3. Plutarch:

   Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

4. Floyd Dell:

   Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

5. Jean Paul:

   Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.