businesslessness

English

Etymology

From businessless +‎ -ness.

Noun

businesslessness (uncountable)

1. (very rare) The quality of lacking business or businesses.
   • 1971, Journal of the American Water Works Association, volume 63, page 540:

     Butter vulnerability, though than the threat of businesslessness as dictated by the invention of an environmental engineer from the Electric Boat. Div. of General Dynamics at Groton, Conn.

   • 1997 December 4, zxxx, “suddenly something”, in rec.arts.poems‎^[1] (Usenet):

     my own businesslessness / reading fortunes on the ceiling

   • 2006 June, Bill Menza, “Poem: Why Not Meditate All the Time?”, in The Mindfulness Bell‎^[2], number 42, archived from the original on 2023-08-07:

     Daily sitting meditation, / Businesslessness seem impossible, / Most often always, / Why not meditate on the breath / All the time every moment?