oisiveté

French

Etymology

From oisif +‎ -ité.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wa.ziv.te/

Noun

oisiveté f (plural oisivetés)

idleness (of a person), as in laziness or indolence
Synonym: inaction
- 1855, Honoré de Balzac, Modeste Mignon:
  Peut-être voulez-vous seulement occuper votre oisiveté de province par le spectacle des sottises que peut faire un poète ?
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Further reading

“oisiveté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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