otiosity

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There is also the noun form "otiosity," which predates

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  1. The state or quality of being otiose or of having nothing to do; ease; relief from labor; idleness. Joseph Sedley then led a life of dignified otiosity, such as became a person of his eminence. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, lx.
  2. Perfunctoriness; easy negligence; carelessness; ineffectiveness; futility.

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  • There is also the noun form "otiosity," which predates —  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • Joseph Sedley then led a life of dignified otiosity such as became a person of his eminence. —  Vanity Fair
  • 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 —  The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
 

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  1. = Old French ociosite, otiosite = Spanish ociosidad = Portuguese ociosidade = Italian oziosità; as otiose + -ity.
 

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