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idlenesses

idlenesses is the plural of idleness.

Meaning of idleness

Noun

idleness (countable and uncountable, plural idlenesses)

  1. The state of being idle; inactivity.
  2. The state of being indolent; indolence.
    • 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 ſtill they lurke, / Vnmyndfull of chiefe parts of...1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso
  3. Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.

Questions about idlenesses

What is idlenesses the plural of?
Idlenesses is the plural of idleness.

Words near idlenesses in the dictionary

  1. idleheaded
  2. idleheads
  3. idlehood
  4. idlely
  5. idleness
  6. idlenesses
  7. idler
  8. idler wheel
  9. idler-wheel
  10. idlers
  11. idles

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