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idleness

noun
/ˈaɪdəlnəs/

Etymology

From Middle English ydelnesse, from Old English īdelnes, from Proto-West Germanic *īdalnassī, equivalent to idle + -ness. Cognate with Old Frisian īdelnisse (“idelness”), obsolete Dutch ijdelnis, Old Saxon īdalnussi (“idleness, vanity”), Old High German ītalnissa (“idleness, vanity, emptiness”).

  1. inherited from *īdalnassī✻
  2. inherited from īdelnes
  3. inherited from ydelnesse

Definitions

  1. The state of being idle

    The state of being idle; inactivity.

  2. The state of being indolent

    The state of being indolent; indolence.

  3. Groundlessness

    Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.

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Derived

eat the bread of idleness, love-in-idleness

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at idleness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at idleness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at idleness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA