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1. Having no employment
   - idling, loafing
    
2. The quality of lacking substance or value
   "the idleness of their report was quickly recognized"
   - groundlessness
    
3. The trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
   - faineance

Derived forms: idlenesses

See also: idle

Type of: inactivity, indolence, ineptitude, laziness, worthlessness

Encyclopedia: Idleness