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Idleness vs Vagabondize - What's the difference?

idleness | vagabondize |

As a noun idleness

is the state of being idle; inactivity.

As a verb vagabondize is

to play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

idleness

English

Noun

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

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    vagabondize

    English

    Verb

    (vagabondiz)
  • To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1857, author=S. H. Hammond, title=Wild Northern Scenes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Well, last summer, I was out that way among the lakes that lie sleeping in beauty, and along the streams that flow through the old woods, playing the savage and vagabondizing in a promiscuous way. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards, title=In the Days of My Youth, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Because I will not permit you to go idling and vagabondizing about the village." }} (Webster 1913)