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The state of being idle; inactivity.countableuncountable
- Opposite to exercise is idleness (the badge of gentry) or want of exercise, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, and a sole cause of t
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The state of being indolent; indolence.countableuncountable
- For either they be puffed vp vvith pride, / Or fraught vvith enuie that their galls do ſvvell, / Or they their dayes to ydleneſſe diuide, / Or drovvnded lie in pleaſures vvaſtefull vvell, / In vvhich like Moldvvarps [i.e., moles] nouſling ſ
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Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.countableuncountable
idleness
'aidlnis5 senses · 223 ms
Level C2CET-6