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OTIOSITY

Definition: OTIOSITY

OTIOSITY

Noun

1. Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Otiosity \O`ti*os"ity\, noun. [Latin expression otiositas.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: OTIOSITY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inactivity

Idleness, remissness; Adjective: sloth, indolence, indiligence; dawdling; Verb: ergophobia, otiosity.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: OTIOSITY

Language Translations for "OTIOSITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kotësi (frivolity, futility, otioseness, vainglory, vanity, wantonness). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ненужност (otioseness), излишност (otioseness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tétlenség (idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, passiveness, passivity, quiescence, sloth, torpidness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otiosityay

   

Russian 

  

праздность (ease, idleness, indolence, otioseness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaludnost (otioseness), izlišnost (otioseness, redundance, redundancy, superfluity), dokonost (idleness, otioseness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inutilidad (futility, idleness, loss, needlessness, pointlessness, shiftlessness, uselessness). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

незайнятість (inoccupation), марність (emptiness, futility, needlessness, nugacity), безкорисність (nugacity), бездіяльність (hibernation, inaction, inactivity, non-feasance, slack, standstill, torpidity). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính chất vô tác dụng (otioseness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "OTIOSITY"

Words rhyming with "OTIOSITY" (pronounced 'O`ti*os"ity'): Caliginosity, Caloricity, Flammability, Multiplicity, rusticity. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OTIOSITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-i-o-o-s-t-t-y"

-2 letters: otitis, tootsy.

-3 letters: ottos, sooty, titis, toits, toots, toyos.

-4 letters: oots, otto, soot, titi, tits, toit, toot, tost, tots, toyo, toys.

-5 letters: its, oot, sit, sot, soy, sty, tis, tit, too, tot, toy.

 Words containing the letters "i-i-o-o-s-t-t-y"
 

+3 letters: isotonicity.

 

+4 letters: apostolicity, posteriority.

 

+5 letters: ichthyologist, osteomyelitis, stoichiometry, tenosynovitis.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OTIOSITY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 54 49 4F 53 49 54 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    -    ..    ---    ...    ..    -    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010100 01001001 01001111 01010011 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#83 &#73 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0054 0049 004F 0053 0049 0054 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4954434953435459

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Non-English Dictionaries with "OTIOSITY"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albán, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, албанський, албанка, албанець

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjesrpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, испански език, испански, spanyol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, іспанський, іспанська мова

Ukranian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnami, vietnámi, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, angol, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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