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, idling, loafing

2. groundlessness, idlenessnoun

   the quality of lacking substance or value

   "the groundlessness of their report was quickly recognized"

   Synonyms:
   faineance, groundlessness, idling, loafing

3. faineance, idlenessnoun

   the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work

   Synonyms:
   faineance, groundlessness, idling, loafing

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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. Floyd Dell:

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

2. Virginia Woolf:

   It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

3. Samuel Johnson:

   Grief is a species of idleness.

4. Sir Walter Scott:

   Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes.

5. Hannah More:

   Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.