donothingness

Men with votes and influence compared this squire in their minds with other squires, whose lives seemed spent in a slumberous donothingness.

Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

Recollect what this horrid donothingness is doing for me.

The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

It is by far the ablest defence I have yet seen for the donothingness of the Government about Reform; and you have most skilfully brought all the different schemes face to face, in order to knock their heads together, at the same time that you show yourself, as the organ of the Whig party, to be liberal and progressive, and not only ready, but anxious, to adopt any plan of Reform that will really effect that which reasonable men unite in desiring.

Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. John Knox Laughton 1872