idleness

English

Etymology

idle +‎ -ness

Noun

idleness (countable and uncountable, plural idlenesses)

The state of being idle; inactivity.
The state of being indolent; indolence.
Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality.

Translations

state of being idle; inactivity

Bulgarian: бездействие (bg) n (bezdejstvie)
Catalan: inactivitat
Czech: zahálka (cs) f
Finnish: joutilaisuus (fi)
French: oisiveté (fr) f, inactivité (fr) f
Galician: inactividade (gl) f
German: Untätigkeit f, Stillstand (de) m, Müßiggang (de), Untätigkeit
Italian: ozio (it) m
Korean: 한가 (ko) (han-ga)

Latin: ōtium n
Portuguese: inatividade (pt) f, ócio (pt) m
Russian: просто́й (ru) m (prostój), безде́лье (ru) n (bezdélʹje)
Serbo-Croatian: dokolica (sh) f
Spanish: inactividad (es) f, holganza (es) f
Swedish: sysslolöshet (sv) c
Volapük: nosdun (vo)
Welsh: segurdod (cy)

state of being indolent

Bulgarian: безделие (bg) n (bezdelie)
Catalan: indolència (ca) f
Finnish: velttous (fi), vetelyys (fi)
French: indolence (fr) f
Galician: indolencia (gl) f
German: Trägheit (de) f, Arbeitsunwilligkeit f, (rare) Indolenz (de) f, Faulheit (de)

Italian: indolenza (it) f, pigrizia (it) f, oziosità
Portuguese: indolência (pt) f
Russian: праздность (ru) f (prazdnostʹ), леность (ru) f (lenostʹ)
Spanish: indolencia (es) f
Volapük: trög (vo)

groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality

Finnish: turhuus (fi)
French: inutilité (fr) f, futilité (fr) f, trivialité (fr) f
German: Nutzlosigkeit (de)

Italian: inutilità (it)
Russian: бесплодность (ru) f (besplodnostʹ), бесполезность (ru) f (bespoleznostʹ)

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