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Idleness vs Dalliance - What's the difference?

idleness | dalliance |

As nouns the difference between idleness and dalliance

is that idleness is the state of being idle; inactivity while dalliance is playful flirtation; amorous play.

idleness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being idle; inactivity.
  • The state of being indolent; indolence
  • Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality.

    • Anagrams

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    dalliance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Playful flirtation; amorous play.
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    • As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance , which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),
  • A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
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  • A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.

    • Synonyms

    * (a wasting of time) dawdling, idling, trifling * (playful flirtation) flirtation * (sexual relationship) affair

    Related terms

    * dallier * dally * dallying