do-nothingness
English
Etymology
do-nothing + -ness
Noun
do-nothingness (uncountable)
- inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 172:
- Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothing-ness, would have been much more suited to her capacity, than the exertions and self-denials of the one, which her imprudent marriage had placed her in.
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