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Synonyms for idleness
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Princeton's WordNet
idleness, idling, loafing(noun)
having no employment
Synonyms:
faineance, groundlessness, idling, loafinggroundlessness, idleness(noun)
the quality of lacking substance or value
"the groundlessness of their report was quickly recognized"
Synonyms:
faineance, groundlessness, idling, loafingfaineance, idleness(noun)
the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
Synonyms:
faineance, groundlessness, idling, loafing
English Synonyms and Antonyms
idleness
Synonyms:
inaction, inactivity, relaxation, restAntonyms:
act, action, activity, application, drill, employment, exercise, exertion, occupation, operation, performance, practise, use
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "idleness":
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #1547 | rest | |
| #9013 | idle | |
| #9757 | relaxation | |
| #28771 | inactivity | |
| #36114 | inaction | |
| #38659 | sloth | |
| #41296 | laziness | |
| #49259 | idling | |
| #67297 | idleness | |
| #77507 | loafing |
How to use idleness in a sentence?
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne:
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Translations for idleness
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- zahálkaCzech
- segurdodWelsh
- Stillstand, Trägheit, Arbeitsunwilligkeit, Untätigkeit, IndolenzGerman
- ociosidadSpanish
- بیکار بودنPersian
- velttous, joutilaisuus, vetelyys, turhuusFinnish
- oisiveté, futilité, inactivité, inutilité, indolenceFrench
- आलस्यHindi
- ozio, indolenza, oziosità, pigriziaItalian
- ōtiumLatin
- ócio, inatividadePortuguese
- праздность, леность, бесполезность, простой, бесплодность, бездельеRussian
- dokolicaSerbo-Croatian
- sysslolöshetSwedish
- trög, nosdunVolapük
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