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otiosity
noun as in idleness
Strong matches
noun as in inaction
noun as in inactivity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in inertness
Strong matches
noun as in inoperativeness
Weak matches
- dawdling
- dilly-dallying
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- loitering
- own sweet time
- pottering
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- vegetating
noun as in laziness
Strong matches
noun as in shiftlessness
Strong matches
noun as in slothfulness
Strong matches
noun as in sluggardness
Weak matches
- apathy
- dilatoriness
- do-nothingness
- dormancy
- dreaminess
- drowsiness
- dullness
- faineance
- faineancy
- heaviness
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- lackadaisicalness
- languidness
- languorousness
- laxness
- leadenness
- leisureliness
- lethargy
- listlessness
- neglectfulness
- negligence
- otioseness
- passivity
- remissness
- shiftlessness
- slackness
- sleepiness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stolidity
- supineness
- tardiness
- torpescence
- torpidness
- weariness
Example Sentences
And also the people of this Realm, as well men as women, which should and might be set on work, by exercise of like policy and craft of spinning, weaving, and making of cloth, lies now in idleness and otiosity, to the high displeasure of Almighty God, great diminution of the King's people, and extreme ruin, decay, and impoverishment of this Realm.
Joseph Sedley then led a life of dignified otiosity such as became a person of his eminence.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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