Usually means: Lack of activity or engagement.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word idleness:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. idleness: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. idleness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. idleness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. idleness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Idleness, idleness: Wordnik
  6. idleness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. idleness: Wiktionary
  8. Idleness, idleness: Dictionary.com
  9. idleness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Idleness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Idleness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. idleness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. idleness: Rhymezone
  14. Idleness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. idleness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. idleness: Free Dictionary
  17. idleness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. idleness: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. Idleness: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. idleness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idleness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idleness: Idioms

(Note: See idle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (idleness)

noun:  The state of being idle; inactivity.
noun:  The state of being indolent; indolence.
noun:  Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.

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