idleness (n.)
- cautiousness
- circumspection
- contemplation
- creeping
- dawdling
- deliberateness
- deliberation
- dormancy
- drawl
- emptiness
- flimsiness
- foolishness
- frivolity
- frivolousness
- futility
- immobility
- inaction
- inactivity
- inanity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- languor
- lassitude
- laze
- laziness
- lazing
- leisureliness
- lentitude
- lethargy
- levity
- lightness
- loafing
- malingering
- meditation
- neutralism
- neutrality
- nonparticipation
- nonresistance
- nonviolence
- pacifism
- paralysis
- passiveness
- passivism
- passivity
- policy
- procrastination
- quiescence
- quietism
- reluctance
- shallowness
- shiftlessness
- shirking
- silliness
- slackness
- slenderness
- slightness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnancy
- stagnation
- stasis
- superficiality
- torpor
- triteness
- triviality
- unemployment
- vacuity
- vanity
- vapidity
- vegetation
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The pains and penalties of idleness.
What more felicitie can fall to creature
Than to enjoy delight with libertie,
And to be lord of all the workes of Nature,
To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie,
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
