KJV Dictionary - idleness
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IDLENESS
I'DLENESS, n. Abstinence from labor or employment; the state of a person who is unemployed in labor, or unoccupied in business; the state of doing nothing. Idleness is the parent of vice.
Through the idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. Eccles.10.
1. Aversion to labor; reluctance to be employed, or to exertion either of body or mind; laziness; sloth; sluggishness. This is properly laziness; but idleness is often the effect of laziness, and sometimes this word may be used for it.
2. Unimportance; trivialness.
Apes of idleness.
3. Inefficacy; uselessness. Little used.
4. Barrenness; worthlessness. Little used.
5. Emptiness; foolishness; infatuation; as idleness of brain. Little used.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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