do-nothingness

English

Etymology

do-nothing +‎ -ness

Noun

do-nothingness (uncountable)

1. Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 172:

     Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothing-ness, would have been much more suited to her capacity, than the exertions and self-denials of the one, which her imprudent marriage had placed her in.