idleness

• abandonment
• abeyance
• apathy
• dallying
• dawdling
• desertion
• desuetude
• dilly-dallying
• disuse
• dormancy
• droning
• goldbricking
• goof-off time
• hibernation
• inaction
• inactivity
• indolence
• inertia
• inertness
• joblessness
• languor
• lassitude
• latency
• laze
• laziness
• lazing
• leisure
• lethargy
• listlessness
• loafing
• loitering
• lolling
• lounging
• neglect
• nonaction
• otiosity
• own sweet time
• pottering
• quiescence
• shiftlessness
• sleepiness
• sloth
• slothfulness
• slouch
• slowness
• sluggishness
• stupor
• supineness
• time to burn
• time to kill
• time-wasting
• torpidity
• torpor
• trifling
• truancy
• unemployment
• vegetating

• action
• activeness
• activity
• ambition
• animateness
• animation
• assiduity
• assiduousness
• briskness
• business
• busyness
• diligence
• drive
• employment
• energy
• enterprise
• exuberance
• go
• hustle
• industriousness
• industry
• initiative
• jazziness
• labor
• life
• liveliness
• lustiness
• occupation
• pep
• peppiness
• perseverance
• robustness
• sprightliness
• use
• vibrancy
• vigor
• vim
• vitality
• vivacity
• work

• noun
  1. The state of being idle; inactivity.
  2. The state of being indolent; indolence.
  3. Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality.

• Sarah found solace in moments of idleness, allowing her mind to wander freely.
• The boss frowned upon any sign of idleness in the workplace, urging employees to stay productive.
• Despite her initial intentions to relax, Jane grew restless during periods of idleness.
• In some cultures, idleness is seen as a sign of laziness, while in others, it's valued as essential for mental well-being.
• The philosopher pondered the nature of human idleness and its role in fostering creativity and reflection.

abeyance

• cold storage
• coma
• deep freeze
• discontinuation
• doldrums
• dormancy
• downtime
• hibernation
• holding pattern
• hypnosis
• idleness
• impasse
• inaction
• inactivity
• inertia
• inertness
• intermission
• latency
• layoff
• moratorium
• motionlessness
• postponement
• quiescence
• recess
• recession
• remission
• repose
• rest
• sleep
• slumber
• standstill
• suspended animation
• suspense
• suspension
• temporarily deferred
• torpor
• waiting

dallying

• aestivating
• ambling
• amorous
• amusing
• apathetic
• apathy
• arch
• asleep on the job
• backward
• behindhand
• bumming
• careless
• cavorting
• chilling
• comatose
• come-hither
• come-on
• coquetting
• coquettish
• courting
• coy
• crawling
• creeping
• dabbling
• dalliance
• dawdling
• decelerating
• delaying
• deliberate
• delighting
• diddling
• dilatory
• dillydallying
• directionless
• disporting
• diverting
• dozing
• dragging
• droning
• dropping behind
• drowsy
• dull
• easing
• entertaining
• enticing
• estivating
• falling behind
• filibustering
• flagging
• flightiness
• flippancy
• flirting
• flirty
• flummery
• folly
• fooling
• fooling around
• footling
• fribble
• frippery
• frisking
• frisky
• frivoling
• frivolling
• frivolousness
• frolicking
• fun
• furloughing
• futile
• gaiety
• gamboling
• gambolling
• game
• giddiness
• goldbricking
• good-for-nothing
• hanging
• hanging about
• hanging fire
• heavy-footed
• hibernating
• idle
• idleness
• idling
• inactive
• inattentive
• inching
• incompetent
• indifferent
• indolence
• indolent
• inert
• inertia
• jest
• jesting
• joking
• joshing
• kicking around
• kicking back
• kidding
• killing time
• kittenish
• lackadaisical
• laggard
• lagging
• lallygagging
• languid
• languor
• languorous
• lassitude
• late
• lax
• laziness
• lazing
• lazy
• lazying
• leading on
• leisurely
• lethargic
• lethargy
• levity
• libidinous
• lifeless
• lightheartedness
• lightness
• lingering
• listless
• listlessness
• loafing
• loitering
• lolling
• lollygagging
• lounging
• lumbering
• malingering
• manipulating
• marking time
• mashing
• measured
• messing
• messing around
• monkeying
• moping
• moratory
• moseying
• mucking
• neglectful
• negligent
• nonsense
• out of it
• passive
• piddling
• play
• playing
• pleasing
• plodding
• pokey
• poking
• poky
• procrastinating
• puerility
• putting off
• putting on
• rambling
• razzing
• recreating
• relaxing
• remiss
• resting
• ribbing
• rollicking
• romping
• sauntering
• screwing around
• shallowness
• shiftless
• shiftlessness
• shilly-shallying
• shuffling
• skylarking
• slack
• sleepy
• sloth
• slothful
• slow
• slow-footed
• slow-moving
• slowing
• sluggish
• sluggishness
• snail-like
• snail-paced
• snaillike
• snoozy
• somnolent
• spoony
• sport
• sporting
• sportive
• staggering
• stalling
• stringing along
• strolling
• superficiality
• supine
• supineness
• swanning
• tardy
• tarrying
• teasing
• temporizing
• time-wasting
• tired
• torpid
• toying
• trifling
• triviality
• truanting
• unambitious
• unconcerned
• unenergetic
• unhasty
• unhurried
• unindustrious
• unmotivated
• unpersevering
• unready
• vamping
• vegging out
• volatility
• weary
• whimsicality
• whimsy
• wooing
• worthless

dawdling

• adjournment
• aestivating
• afraid
• ambling
• apathetic
• averse
• averseness
• backward
• behind
• behindhand
• belated
• bind
• bit-by-bit
• bumming
• check
• chilling
• cooling-off period
• crawling
• creeping
• cunctation
• dallying
• decelerating
• delay
• delayed
• delaying
• deliberate
• delinquent
• demurral
• detained
• detainment
• detention
• diddling
• diffident
• dilatory
• dilly-dallying
• dillydallying
• discontinuation
• disinclined
• dormancy
• doubt
• doubtful
• doubting
• downtime
• dozing
• dragging
• dreamy
• droning
• dropping behind
• drowsy
• dubiety
• easing
• easy
• equivocation
• estivating
• falling behind
• faltering
• filibuster
• filibustering
• fluctuation
• fooling
• fooling around
• footling
• fumbling
• furloughing
• goldbricking
• goof-off time
• gradual
• half-hearted
• halting
• hanging about
• hanging back
• hanging fire
• hangup
• heavy
• heavy-footed
• held up
• hemming and hawing
• hesitancy
• hesitating
• hibernating
• hibernation
• hindrance
• holding
• holding pattern
• holdup
• hung up
• idle
• idleness
• idling
• impediment
• imperceptible
• in a bind
• inactive
• inactivity
• inching
• indecision
• indecisive
• indecisiveness
• indisposition
• indolence
• indolent
• inert
• inertia
• inertness
• inoperativeness
• interval
• irresolute
• irresoluteness
• irresolution
• jam
• jammed
• joblessness
• kicking around
• kicking back
• killing time
• lackadaisical
• lacking confidence
• lag
• laggard
• lagging
• lallygagging
• languid
• laze
• lazing
• lazy
• lazying
• leaden
• leisure
• leisurely
• lethargic
• lethargy
• lingering
• listless
• loafing
• loath
• logjam
• loitering
• lolling
• lollygagging
• lounging
• lumbering
• malingering
• marking time
• measured
• messing
• messing around
• misgiving
• mistrust
• moderate
• monkeying
• moping
• moratorium
• moseying
• mucking
• negligent
• not arrived
• not done
• obstruction
• oscillation
• otiosity
• overdue
• own sweet time
• passive
• pause
• pendulous
• phlegmatic
• piddling
• playing
• plodding
• pokey
• poking
• poky
• ponderous
• postponement
• postponing
• pottering
• problem
• procrastinating
• procrastination
• prorogation
• putting off
• qualm
• quiet
• relaxing
• reluctance
• reluctant
• remiss
• remission
• reprieve
• resting
• retardation
• retardment
• sauntering
• scruple
• setback
• shiftlessness
• shilly-shally
• shilly-shallying
• showstopper
• shuffling
• shy
• skeptical
• skepticism
• slack
• sleepy
• sloth
• slothful
• slothfulness
• slouch
• slow
• slow-footed
• slow-going
• slow-moving
• slow-paced
• slowing
• slowness
• sluggish
• sluggishness
• snail-paced
• snaillike
• staggering
• stagnant
• stagnation
• stall
• stalling
• stammering
• stay
• stop
• stoppage
• strapped for time
• strolling
• stumbling
• stupor
• stuttering
• supine
• surcease
• suspension
• swanning
• tardy
• tarrying
• temporizing
• tentative
• tentativeness
• tie up
• time to burn
• time to kill
• time-wasting
• timid
• timidity
• timidness
• to and fro
• too late
• torpid
• torpidity
• torpor
• tortoiselike
• trifling
• truancy
• truanting
• uneager
• unemployment
• unhurried
• unpredictable
• unpunctual
• unsure
• unwilling
• unwillingness
• vacillant
• vacillating
• vacillation
• vacillatory
• vegetating
• vegging out
• wait
• wavering

deadness

• apathy
• banality
• boredom
• dead
• death
• doldrums
• drabness
• dreariness
• drowsiness
• dullness
• ennui
• formication
• grave
• idleness
• immobility
• immobilization
• inactivity
• indolence
• irksomeness
• lack of interest
• languor
• lassitude
• laziness
• lethargy
• lifelessness
• listlessness
• mortality
• nothingness
• numbness
• oscitancy
• paraesthesia
• paralysis
• paresthesia
• passivity
• prickling
• routine
• sameness
• sensation
• sleep
• sloth
• sluggishness
• stillness
• stupor
• tediousness
• tingle
• tingling
• tiresomeness
• torpidity
• torpor
• unresponsiveness
• wearisomeness
• yawn

ease

• abandon
• abandonment
• abate
• abbreviate
• abet
• abridge
• accelerate
• adroitness
• advance
• affability
• affluence
• aid
• allay
• alleviate
• alleviation
• ameliorate
• amend
• anesthetize
• aplomb
• appease
• appeasement
• ardor
• assist
• assuage
• assuagement
• ataraxia
• attend to
• bed of roses
• better
• blank check
• breeze
• calm
• calming
• calmness
• carelessness
• carte blanche
• casualness
• catnapping
• cheer
• cinch
• clear the way
• cleverness
• clip
• collapse
• comfort
• composure
• compress
• condense
• constrict
• content
• contentment
• contract
• correct
• crop
• cure
• curtail
• cut
• cut back
• cut down
• de-escalate
• decline
• decompression
• decrease
• deflate
• dent
• deplete
• detach
• dexterity
• diminish
• diminishment
• disburden
• disengage
• disentangle
• dispatch
• dock
• doctor
• dolce far niente
• downscale
• downsize
• dozing
• drop
• duck soup
• dwindle
• easiness
• easygoingness
• ebb
• edge
• efficiency
• effortlessness
• emend
• enhance
• enrich
• enthusiasm
• evaporate
• excess
• excessiveness
• expedite
• expertise
• expertness
• extricate
• exuberance
• facilitate
• fall
• fall away
• familiarity
• fervor
• fix
• flag
• flexibility
• fluency
• forward
• free
• free hand
• further
• give out
• gratification
• grease
• handle
• happiness
• hasten
• heal
• heedlessness
• help
• hurry
• idleness
• immoderacy
• improve
• impulsiveness
• impulsivity
• inactivity
• inch
• incontinence
• indiscretion
• induce
• indulgence
• inertia
• inertness
• informality
• insert
• insouciance
• intemperance
• join
• knack
• knock down
• lazing
• leisure
• lessen
• let up
• let up on
• liberty
• licentiousness
• lift
• lighten
• lightheartedness
• loose
• loosen
• lower
• luxury
• make easier
• maneuver
• meliorate
• mend
• minimize
• mitigate
• mitigation
• moderate
• moderation
• modify
• modulate
• mollification
• mollify
• napping
• naturalness
• nick
• nonchalance
• nurse
• offhandedness
• open the door
• pacify
• pall
• palliate
• pare
• peace
• peace of mind
• peacefulness
• perfect
• permissiveness
• phase down
• placidity
• poise
• promote
• prosperity
• prune
• pushover
• qualify
• quicken
• quickness
• quiet
• quietness
• quietude
• readiness
• recede
• recklessness
• rectify
• reduce
• refine
• reform
• relax
• relaxation
• relaxedness
• release
• relent
• relief
• relieve
• remedy
• remit
• remove
• repair
• repose
• requiescence
• respite
• rest
• restfulness
• resting
• retrench
• right
• run interference for
• rush
• salving
• satisfaction
• security
• sereneness
• serenity
• set right
• setup
• shorten
• shrink
• silence
• simplicity
• simplify
• sink
• skillfulness
• slack
• slacken
• slash
• sleep
• slide
• slip
• slumber
• slumbering
• smooth
• smooth sailing
• smoothness
• snap
• snoozing
• soften
• soothe
• soothing
• speed
• speed up
• spirit
• spontaneity
• spontaneousness
• squeeze
• steer
• still
• stillness
• streamline
• subside
• supinity
• taper
• taper off
• temper
• thoughtlessness
• tranquility
• tranquilize
• tranquillity
• tranquilness
• trim
• truncate
• unaffectedness
• unbind
• unclog
• unconstraint
• undo
• unfasten
• uninhibitedness
• unreservedness
• unrestraint
• unself-consciousness
• untangle
• untie
• untighten
• vanish
• wane
• wantonness
• warmth
• weaken
• whittle
• wildness
• zeal
• zealotry
• zealousness

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