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8 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun having no employment
noun the quality of lacking substance or value
noun the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
originFrom Middle English ydelnesse, from Old English īdelnes, from Proto-West Germanic *īdalnassī, equivalent to idle + -ness. Cognate with Old Frisian īdelnisse (“idelness”), obsolete Dutch ijdelnis, Old Saxon īdalnussi (“idleness, vanity”), Old High German ītalnissa (“idleness, vanity, emptiness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
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- endless 8
- enisled 8
- ensiled 8
- idlesse 8
- linseed 8
- seidels 8
- enisles 7
- ensiles 7
- seniles 7
- denies 7
- dienes 7