Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being otiose or of having nothing to do; ease; relief from labor; idleness.
- noun Perfunctoriness; easy negligence; carelessness; ineffectiveness; futility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
otiose .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is also the noun form "otiosity," which predates
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There is also the noun form "otiosity," which predates
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A belch. “… it is thus an orifice, and gives ceaseless issue to eructations …” otiosity.
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Lazy; indolent; of no use; ineffective; futile. “… the Dream awakes; seeing its own otiosity, which has nothing to do with nothingness …”
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Joseph Sedley then led a life of dignified otiosity such as became a person of his eminence.
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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
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Joseph Sedley then led a life of dignified otiosity such as became a person of his eminence.
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