idlehood

Meaning

Noun

• The state or condition of being idle; a habit of idling; idleness.

Related

Similar words

• idledom
• idleness
• idleship

Origin

• From idle + -hood, possibly an alteration of obsolete English idlehead, possibly from Middle English idelhed. Compare also Scots ydilheid ("idleness"), Dutch ijdelheid ("vanity, vainglory"), Middle Low German îdelheit ("idleness"), and German Eitelkeit ("vanity, conceit, vainness, idleness").