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noun
- the quality, state, or condition of being lazy, inactive, or idle: His lack of interest in the larger world and his consummate idleness were the causes of their dreadful divorce.
Old English idelnes “frivolity, vanity, emptiness; vain existence;” see idle + -ness. Old English expressed the idea we attach to in vain by in idelnisse. Spenser, Scott, and others use idlesse to mean the same thing in a positive, pleasant sense.
The Dangers of Inaction and Idleness | The Art of Manliness
A little bit of idleness – Kelly Epperson SIMMONS
File:Summer Idleness- Day Dreams by Godward.jpg – Wikimedia Commons
The Problem of Idleness – River Recovery Church
The Sin of Idleness | Liberal Dictionary