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idleness

state of a person who does not do anything laborious
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idleness

Summary

idleness ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (135 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • idleness is a type of social behavior[2].
  • idleness's Commons category is recorded as Idleness[3].
  • idleness's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[4].
  • idleness's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C118254[5].
  • idleness's different from is recorded as laziness[6].
  • idleness's different from is recorded as idling[7].

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Definition and Type

idleness is a type of social behavior[2].

Why It Matters

idleness ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (135 views/month).[1] idleness has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] idleness is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → laziness, idling
    Subclass of → social behavior
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 8123, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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