do-nothingness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From do-nothing + -ness.
Noun
[edit]- Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, 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.