idlenessn.

/ˈʌɪd(ə)lnɪs/

Forms: see idle adj. and -ness suffix.

Etymology: Old English ídelnes , < ídel idle adj. and n. + -nes -ness suffix.

†1. Vanity: in (or on) idleness, in vain (cf. idle n. 1b). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > in vain [phrase]

in (or on) idlenessc825

in (earlier on, an) idlec1000

in idleshipa1250

in vaina1300

over tomeheda1300

(all) for noughtc1300

in waste1340

in deveyn(ec1400

to little availc1450

without availc1450

in fruster1488

to good (also great, some, little, no, etc.) purpose1525

for nothing1560

sans fail1597

for vaina1616

c825 Vesp. Psalter iv. 3 To hwon lufiað ge idelnisse, and soecað leasunge.

c825 Vesp. Psalter cxxvi[i]. 1 Nemðe dryhten timbrie hus, in idelnisse winnað ða timbriað ða.

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 756 Swere nat hys name yn ydulnesse.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 164 Salomon..zayde his dom ine zuiche manere, ‘ydelnesse, ydelnesse, ydelnesse, and al þet ich izi is ydelnesse’.

c1400 Rom. Rose 3323 Ye may wele..Youre wordis waste in idilnesse.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. cxvi. sig. mmi/1 It is not sayd in ydilnesse [a1398 BL Add. yseid an ydil] (thou hast made all in nombre: weyghte & mesure).

2. Groundlessness, worthlessness; triviality; ineptitude, futility.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > worthlessness

ames-ace?a1300

noughtinessa1500

unworthness1587

worthlessness1604

vacuity1613

idlenessa1650

nothingness1652

unvaluableness1665

jackstraw1828

valuelessness1830

trashiness1857

dead-beatism1869

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun]

vanityc1325

overvoidnessa1382

unnaitnessa1400

unnaitshipa1400

unprofitablenessc1400

voidnessa1425

vainness1567

futility1623

emptiness1632

idlenessa1650

insignificancy1720

futileness1727

pointlessness1845

a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) vii. 56 Who seeth not the idleness of that fiction concerning a certain Fountain [etc.]?

1758 H. Walpole Catal. Royal Authors (1759) II. 17 Who..could accommodate their minds to the utmost idlenesses of litterature.

1886 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 31 361 The idleness of the proceedings will be afterwards discovered.

†3. Light-headedness, imbecility; delirium; also folly, foolishness, silliness. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [noun]

giddiheadc1275

giddinessa1290

lighthead1340

vanityc1386

glaikitnessa1500

idleness1535

levity1564

emptiness1577

vainness1591

frivolousnessa1631

volageness1633

grollery1637

brain-giddinessa1652

desipience1656

desipiencya1682

frothinessa1716

inanity1756

frivolity1796

unpracticalness1828

unpracticality1840

bird-wittedness1854

scattiness1959

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delirium or raving

wood dreameOE

mazec1300

paraphrenesisa1398

ravinga1398

deliramentc1450

idleness1535

delirium1563

randing1583

calenture1593

deliration1598

taveringa1599

ravery1599

delirement1613

debacchation1633

delirancy1645

deliry1657

deliriousness1671

paraphrenitis1683

paraphrosyne1684

deliracy1689

delirousness1694

paracope1749

paraphora1749

wandering1836

paralerema1848

paraleresis1857

paraphronesis1857

rambling1897

1535 W. Tyndale in Test. W. Tracie sig. Bij^v Interprete..as spoken of ydelnes of the heede, by the reason off syckenesse.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Pj^v The sayde cauteres applyed to the sayd places auayleth to ydlenes, fallynge euyll, paynes of the heade.

1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xviii. 97 What an idlenesse it is for foolish Hypocrites to hope they can dance in a net vnseene of heauen?

a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xxiv. 181 This Feaver..accompanied with..idleness or raving, and restlessness.

4. The state or condition of being idle or unoccupied; want of occupation; habitual avoidance of work, inactivity, indolence; an instance of this. (Now the ordinary sense.) bread of idleness, bread not earned by labour; cf. idle bread at idle adj. 4c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun]

idlea1000

idlenessc1000

emptinessOE

idlelaikc1175

idleheada1325

idleship1357

otiosity1483

idlehoodc1540

idleteth1584

idleset1591

fallownessa1594

vacantry1598

vacancy1615

lurgy1769

inanity1782

inoccupation1783

vacuity1817

c1000 Laws Eccl. Inst. §3 in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 404 Seo ydelnes is þære sawle feond.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12433 Idelnesse [c1300 Otho ydilnisse] makeð mon his mon-scipe leose.

c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lix. 137 Nature loueþ idelnes & bodely reste.

c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 233 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 310 Suerdome & Idilnes forto fle.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 355 Apelles..was such an enimie to ydlenesse, that his pencill was never drie, but still drawinge a line.

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxxi. 27 She looketh well to the wayes of her housholde, and eateth not the bread of idlenesse [ Coverd. her bred with ydilnes] .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. iv. 77 'Tis time we twaine Did shew our selues i' th' Field..Pompey Thriues in our Idlenesse .

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 96. ⁋3 Playing at Dice with other Servants, and the like Idlenesses.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 153. ⁋3 Unable to support any of his children, except his heir, in the hereditary dignity of idleness.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 51 The state..insisted as its natural right that children should not be allowed to grow up in idleness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	idleness
释义	idlenessn. /ˈʌɪd(ə)lnɪs/ Forms: see idle adj. and -ness suffix. Etymology: Old English ídelnes , < ídel idle adj. and n. + -nes -ness suffix. †1. Vanity: in (or on) idleness, in vain (cf. idle n. 1b). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > in vain [phrase] in (or on) idlenessc825 in (earlier on, an) idlec1000 in idleshipa1250 in vaina1300 over tomeheda1300 (all) for noughtc1300 in waste1340 in deveyn(ec1400 to little availc1450 without availc1450 in fruster1488 to good (also great, some, little, no, etc.) purpose1525 for nothing1560 sans fail1597 for vaina1616 c825 Vesp. Psalter iv. 3 To hwon lufiað ge idelnisse, and soecað leasunge. c825 Vesp. Psalter cxxvi[i]. 1 Nemðe dryhten timbrie hus, in idelnisse winnað ða timbriað ða. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 756 Swere nat hys name yn ydulnesse. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 164 Salomon..zayde his dom ine zuiche manere, ‘ydelnesse, ydelnesse, ydelnesse, and al þet ich izi is ydelnesse’. c1400 Rom. Rose 3323 Ye may wele..Youre wordis waste in idilnesse. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. cxvi. sig. mmi/1 It is not sayd in ydilnesse [a1398 BL Add. yseid an ydil] (thou hast made all in nombre: weyghte & mesure). 2. Groundlessness, worthlessness; triviality; ineptitude, futility. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > worthlessness ames-ace?a1300 noughtinessa1500 unworthness1587 worthlessness1604 vacuity1613 idlenessa1650 nothingness1652 unvaluableness1665 jackstraw1828 valuelessness1830 trashiness1857 dead-beatism1869 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] vanityc1325 overvoidnessa1382 unnaitnessa1400 unnaitshipa1400 unprofitablenessc1400 voidnessa1425 vainness1567 futility1623 emptiness1632 idlenessa1650 insignificancy1720 futileness1727 pointlessness1845 a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) vii. 56 Who seeth not the idleness of that fiction concerning a certain Fountain [etc.]? 1758 H. Walpole Catal. Royal Authors (1759) II. 17 Who..could accommodate their minds to the utmost idlenesses of litterature. 1886 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 31 361 The idleness of the proceedings will be afterwards discovered. †3. Light-headedness, imbecility; delirium; also folly, foolishness, silliness. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [noun] giddiheadc1275 giddinessa1290 lighthead1340 vanityc1386 glaikitnessa1500 idleness1535 levity1564 emptiness1577 vainness1591 frivolousnessa1631 volageness1633 grollery1637 brain-giddinessa1652 desipience1656 desipiencya1682 frothinessa1716 inanity1756 frivolity1796 unpracticalness1828 unpracticality1840 bird-wittedness1854 scattiness1959 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delirium or raving wood dreameOE mazec1300 paraphrenesisa1398 ravinga1398 deliramentc1450 idleness1535 delirium1563 randing1583 calenture1593 deliration1598 taveringa1599 ravery1599 delirement1613 debacchation1633 delirancy1645 deliry1657 deliriousness1671 paraphrenitis1683 paraphrosyne1684 deliracy1689 delirousness1694 paracope1749 paraphora1749 wandering1836 paralerema1848 paraleresis1857 paraphronesis1857 rambling1897 1535 W. Tyndale in Test. W. Tracie sig. Bij^v Interprete..as spoken of ydelnes of the heede, by the reason off syckenesse. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Pj^v The sayde cauteres applyed to the sayd places auayleth to ydlenes, fallynge euyll, paynes of the heade. 1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xviii. 97 What an idlenesse it is for foolish Hypocrites to hope they can dance in a net vnseene of heauen? a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xxiv. 181 This Feaver..accompanied with..idleness or raving, and restlessness. 4. The state or condition of being idle or unoccupied; want of occupation; habitual avoidance of work, inactivity, indolence; an instance of this. (Now the ordinary sense.) bread of idleness, bread not earned by labour; cf. idle bread at idle adj. 4c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] idlea1000 idlenessc1000 emptinessOE idlelaikc1175 idleheada1325 idleship1357 otiosity1483 idlehoodc1540 idleteth1584 idleset1591 fallownessa1594 vacantry1598 vacancy1615 lurgy1769 inanity1782 inoccupation1783 vacuity1817 c1000 Laws Eccl. Inst. §3 in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 404 Seo ydelnes is þære sawle feond. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12433 Idelnesse [c1300 Otho ydilnisse] makeð mon his mon-scipe leose. c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lix. 137 Nature loueþ idelnes & bodely reste. c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 233 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 310 Suerdome & Idilnes forto fle. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 355 Apelles..was such an enimie to ydlenesse, that his pencill was never drie, but still drawinge a line. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxxi. 27 She looketh well to the wayes of her housholde, and eateth not the bread of idlenesse [ Coverd. her bred with ydilnes] . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. iv. 77 'Tis time we twaine Did shew our selues i' th' Field..Pompey Thriues in our Idlenesse . View more context for this quotation 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 96. ⁋3 Playing at Dice with other Servants, and the like Idlenesses. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 153. ⁋3 Unable to support any of his children, except his heir, in the hereditary dignity of idleness. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 51 The state..insisted as its natural right that children should not be allowed to grow up in idleness. 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