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  IDLENESS, n.  A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of
  new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
  
  

  Idleness \I"dle*ness\, n. [AS. [=i]delnes.]
     The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses
     of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality;
     inactivity; laziness.
  
     Syn: Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth.
          [1913 Webster]

  Idleness \I"dle*ness\, n. [AS. [=i]delnes.]
     The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses
     of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality;
     inactivity; laziness.
  
     Syn: Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth.

  idleness
       n 1: having no employment [syn: idling, loafing]
       2: the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work [syn: faineance]

  idleness
     n.
     1 The state of being idle; inactivity.
     2 The state of being indolent; indolence.
     3 groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.

  idleness
     n.
     1 The state of being idle; inactivity.
     2 The state of being indolent; indolence.
     3 groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.

  idleness
     n.
     1 The state of being idle; inactivity.
     2 The state of being indolent; indolence.
     3 groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.

  idleness
     n.
     1 The state of being idle; inactivity.
     2 The state of being indolent; indolence.
     3 groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.

  idleness
     Engelska n.
     sysslolöshet

  idleness'
     Engelska n.
     (böjning en subst idleness)

  Idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/
  التسيّب

  idleness //ˈaɪdəlnəs// 
  1. бездействие
  state of being idle; inactivity
  2. безделие
  state of being indolent

  idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/ 
  lenost

  idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/ 
  nečinnost

  idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/
  Faulheit , Trägheit 
     Synonyms: laziness, sloth, slothfulness
  

  idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/
  Leerlauf  [übtr.]
     Synonym: time/energy wasted
  

  idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/
  Nichtstun , Müßiggang  [geh.]
        "pleasant idleness, dolce far niente"  - angenehmes Nichtstun, Dolcefarniente
   see: The devil finds work for idle hands (to do)., Idleness is the root of all evil., Idleness is the root of mischief.
  

  idleness //ˈaɪdəlnəs// 
  1. turhuus
  groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality
  2. joutilaisuus
  state of being idle; inactivity
  3. velttous, vetelyys
  state of being indolent

  idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/ 
  1. आलस्य
        "He suffered six months of enforced idleness."

  idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/
  beskorisnost, besposlica, dokolica, lijenost

  idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/
  1. haszontalanság
  2. semmittevés
  3. tétlenség
  4. hiábavalóság

  idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/ 
  ociosidade

  idleness //ˈaɪdəlnəs// 
  sysslolöshet
  state of being idle; inactivity

  
/ˈaɪdəɫnəs/

  IDLENESS. The refusal or neglect to engage in any lawful employment, in 
  order to gain a livelihood. 
       2. The vagrant act of 17 G. II. c. 5, which, with some modifications, 
  has been adopted, in perhaps most of the states, describes idle persons to 
  be those who, not having wherewith to maintain themselves, live idle, 
  without employment, and refuse to work for the usual and common, wages. 
  These are punishable according to the different police regulations, with 
  fine and imprisonment. In Pennsylvania, vagrancy is punished, on a 
  conviction before a magistrate, with imprisonment for one mouth. 
  
  

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "idleness":
     a wise passiveness, big deal, cautiousness, circumspection,
     contemplation, contemplative life, creeping, dawdling,
     deliberateness, deliberation, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism,
     do-nothingness, dolce far niente, dormancy, drawl, emptiness,
     flimsiness, foolishness, foot-dragging, frivolity, frivolousness,
     futility, idle hands, idle hours, immobility, inaction, inactivity,
     inanity, indolence, inertia, inertness, inoccupation,
     laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, lassitude,
     laze, laziness, lazing, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, lethargy,
     levity, lightness, loafing, lollygagging, malingering, meditation,
     neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement,
     nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
     nonviolent resistance, nugacity, otiosity, pacifism, paralysis,
     passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness,
     passivism, passivity, pokiness, policy, procrastination,
     quiescence, quietism, reluctance, shallowness, shiftlessness,
     shilly-shallying, shirking, silliness, slackness, slenderness,
     slightness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggardy,
     sluggishness, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis,
     superficiality, tentativeness, torpor, triflingness, triteness,
     triviality, trivialness, unemployment, vacuity, vanity, vapidity,
     vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
     watching and waiting
  
  

  n. 懒惰,闲散,失业;

     n. 懒散,闲散,无所事事