Idleness \I"dle*ness\, n. [AS. [=i]delnes.]

The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Syn: Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)