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Idleness synonyms

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loitering
The action of the verb loiter
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  1. The action of the verb loiter
  2. The crime of being in a public place without a valid reason. The crime of being in a public place without a valid reason.
lounging
The act of one who lounges.
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  1. The act of one who lounges.
dawdling
The act of one who dawdles.
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  1. The act of one who dawdles.
inertia
Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change:
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  1. Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change:
  2. A tendency to remain in a fixed condition without change; disinclination to move or act
  3. The resistance of a body to changes in its momentum. Because of inertia, a body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion continues moving in a straight line and at a constant speed, unless a force is applied to it. Mass can be considered a measure of a body's inertia.
indolence
Habitual laziness; sloth.
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  1. Habitual laziness; sloth.
sluggishness
The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
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  1. The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
  2. The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
unemployment
The state of being unemployed, especially involuntarily.
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  1. The state of being unemployed, especially involuntarily.
  2. The percentage or number of people who are involuntarily unemployed:
  3. The number or percentage of persons in the normal labor force who are out of work
joblessness
The state of being jobless or unemployed
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  1. The state of being jobless or unemployed
  2. The phenomenon of unemployment in an economy
  3. The level of unemployment in an economy, usually measured as a percentage
torpor
Lethargy; apathy.
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  1. Lethargy; apathy.
  2. A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.
  3. A state of being dormant or inactive; temporary loss of all or part of the power of sensation or motion; sluggishness; stupor
dormancy
The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
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  1. The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
lethargy
A condition of abnormal drowsiness or torpor
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  1. A condition of abnormal drowsiness or torpor
  2. (Medicine) An abnormal state of drowsiness, as caused by disease or drugs.
  3. A lack of interest or enthusiasm; apathy:
stupor
Mental or moral dullness or apathy
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  1. Mental or moral dullness or apathy
  2. A state of reduced sensibility or consciousness:
  3. A state in which the mind and senses are dulled; partial or complete loss of sensibility, as from the use of a narcotic or from shock
truancy
The state of being truant
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  1. The state of being truant
  2. The absence of a child from school without permission.
  3. The neglect of work or duty
vegetation
An abnormal bodily accretion, especially a clot composed largely of fused blood platelets, fibrin, and sometimes bacteria, that adheres to a diseased heart valve.
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  1. An abnormal bodily accretion, especially a clot composed largely of fused blood platelets, fibrin, and sometimes bacteria, that adheres to a diseased heart valve.
  2. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
  3. The plants of an area or a region; plant life:
dalliance
A brief involvement or interest in something:
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  1. A brief involvement or interest in something:
  2. Frivolous spending of time; dawdling:
  3. Casual romantic or sexual activity:
shilly-shallying
The action of the verb
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  1. The action of the verb
slowness
The quality or state of being slow.
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  1. The quality or state of being slow.
  2. (Physics) A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.
indolence
Habitual laziness; sloth.
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  1. Habitual laziness; sloth.
slothfulness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being slothful.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being slothful.
  2. (Countable, rare) The result or product of being slothful.
inertness
Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
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  1. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
  2. (Chemistry) Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements.
  3. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
inoperativeness
The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
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  1. The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
indolence
Habitual laziness; sloth.
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  1. Habitual laziness; sloth.
laziness
The quality of being lazy
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  1. The quality of being lazy
shiftlessness
The property of being shiftless.
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  1. The property of being shiftless.
sloth
Any of a family (Bradypodidae) of slow-moving, tree-dwelling edentate mammals of tropical Central and South America that hang, back down, from branches and feed on fruits and vegetation, including a three-toed species (genus Bradypus) and a two-toed species (genus Choloepus)
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  1. Any of a family (Bradypodidae) of slow-moving, tree-dwelling edentate mammals of tropical Central and South America that hang, back down, from branches and feed on fruits and vegetation, including a three-toed species (genus Bradypus) and a two-toed species (genus Choloepus)
  2. A group of bears.
  3. Disinclination to work or exert oneself; indolence; laziness; idleness
slothfulness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being slothful.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being slothful.
  2. (Countable, rare) The result or product of being slothful.
sluggishness
The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
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  1. The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
  2. The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
Find another word for idleness. In this page you can discover 53 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for idleness, like: loafing, loitering, lounging, idling, time-killing, dawdling, inertia, inactivity, indolence, sluggishness and unemployment.

Sentence Examples

  • And such a state of obligatory and irreproachable idleness is the lot of a whole class--the military.

  • In his hatred of idleness, he ventured to suppress no less than seventeen fetes, and he had a project for lessening the number of those devoted to clerical and monastic life, by fixing the age for taking the vows some years later than was then customary.

  • The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness.

  • He resigned this post in 1820, upon the death of his wife, to whom he was fondly attached, and, though making some efforts to connect himself with journalism, spent the years immediately succeeding in idleness, residing for the most part in Paris.

  • Fallen man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in the sweat of our brows, but because our moral nature is such that we cannot be both idle and at ease.

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