Synonym: faineance, groundlessness, idling, loafing. Similar words: vileness, suppleness, singleness, gentleness, aggressiveness, oneness, rudeness, sameness. Meaning: [aɪdlnɪs] 
n. 1. having no employment 2. the quality of lacking substance or value 3. the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work.
n. 1. having no employment 2. the quality of lacking substance or value 3. the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work. 
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(31) Grief is a species of idleness. Samuel Johnson 
(32) He who indulges in idleness, deserves no success. Dr T.P.Chia
(33) Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. Albert Camus
(34) Idleness is at root alien to human personality.
(35) They were old gentry, tolerated because they were permanently in decline and had fallen prey to drink and idleness.
(36) Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness.
(37) Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. Benjamin Franklin
(38) After he became rich, he lived a life of idleness and comfort.
(39) Life likes the diligence of hardworking people. Life dislikes to the idleness of lazy people. Dr T.P.Chia
(40) Conservative propagandists have sold taxpayers on the notion that welfare recipients are ingrates dependent on wasteful programs perpetuating idleness.
(41) The idleness and overcrowding led to rioting in four state prisons in 1985 that left an inmate dead.
(42) He was able to lie quietly and calmly without feeling guilt-ridden about his idleness.
(43) The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. Oscar Wilde
(44) Idleness not being subsidized and substance not being wasted, more was produced and the general well-being would thus be raised.
(45) All that idleness; eating too much; drinking too much; going to bed in the early hours of the morning.
(46) Rowntree emphasized that such poverty was not due to idleness.
(47) Moving slowly, with apparent idleness, she strolled to the end of the terrace[sentencedict.com], and into the shadows.
(48) Any other author and I might overlook the fact but now he has augmented his idleness with bad taste.
(49) Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. Voltaire
(50) But merely combating idleness is not what makes distributing computing worth doing.
(51) Idleness: to be overcome by government policies that ensure meaningful work for all individuals.
(52) She fretted about all the bad influences, all the temptations to idleness which surrounded her sons.
(53) Good luck is kind and generous to diligence, knowledge and wisdom & idleness, ignorance and stupidity will invite bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia
(54) Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(55) We stress the evils of idleness and bad resource allocation which were relevant to efforts to increase output a century ago.
(56) Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools. Lord Chesterfield
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(57) Payments designed to bridge periods of involuntary unemployment do provide modestly for some wholly voluntary idleness in Florida.
(58) Like rustiness, idleness consume more body energies than work.
(59) Idleness is the greatest prodigality.
(60) Many people are fulminating against luxury and idleness.
More similar words: vileness, suppleness, singleness, gentleness, aggressiveness, oneness, rudeness, sameness, likeness, baseness, soreness, awareness, ripeness, graveness, vagueness, looseness, crudeness, falseness, closeness, obtuseness, minuteness, completeness, forgiveness, politeness, innateness, coarseness, genuineness, passiveness, strangeness, pervasiveness.