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Webster 1913 Edition


Do-nothingness

{

Do′-nothˊing-ism

,

Do′-nothˊing-ness

, }
Noun.
Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
[Jocular]
Carlyle. Miss Austen.

Definition 2024


do-nothingness

do-nothingness

English

Noun

do-nothingness (uncountable)

  1. inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness
    • Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
      Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness 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.