What is another word for idleness?
Synonyms for idleness
idle·ness
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
idleness
Synonyms:
inaction, inactivity, relaxation, restAntonyms:
act, action, activity, application, drill, employment, exercise, exertion, occupation, operation, performance, practise, use
Princeton's WordNet
idleness, idling, loafingnoun
having no employment
Synonyms:
faineance, groundlessness, idling, loafinggroundlessness, idlenessnoun
the quality of lacking substance or value
"the groundlessness of their report was quickly recognized"
Synonyms:
faineance, groundlessness, idling, loafingfaineance, idlenessnoun
the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
Synonyms:
faineance, groundlessness, idling, loafing
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List of paraphrases for "idleness":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#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?
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Grief is a species of 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.
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
Translations for idleness
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- zahálkaCzech
- segurdodWelsh
- Stillstand, Indolenz, Untätigkeit, Arbeitsunwilligkeit, TrägheitGerman
- ociosidadSpanish
- بیکار بودنPersian
- turhuus, velttous, joutilaisuus, vetelyysFinnish
- futilité, oisiveté, indolence, inactivité, inutilitéFrench
- आलस्यHindi
- indolenza, ozio, pigrizia, oziositàItalian
- ōtiumLatin
- inatividade, ócioPortuguese
- простой, бесплодность, бесполезность, безделье, праздность, леностьRussian
- dokolicaSerbo-Croatian
- sysslolöshetSwedish
- trög, nosdunVolapük
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