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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
idleness
n 1: having no employment [syn: {idling}, {loafing}]
2: the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work [syn: {faineance}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of
new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
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