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Worklessness vs Unwork - What's the difference?

worklessness | unwork |

As nouns the difference between worklessness and unwork

is that worklessness is (british) unemployment; the state of being without paid work while unwork is the lack or absence of work; worklessness.

As a verb unwork is

to undo or destroy (work previously done).

worklessness

English

Noun

(-)
  • (British) Unemployment; the state of being without paid work
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 16, author=Libby Brooks, title=Generation Crunch need more than just McJobs, work=The Guardian citation
    • , passage=The majority come from circumstances where worklessness is embedded, and placements need to incorporate some element of mentoring if these individuals are to develop the life skills necessary to sustain a career. }}

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    unwork

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To undo or destroy (work previously done).

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lack or absence of work; worklessness.
  • *1892 , John Greenleaf Wittier, The Prose of John Greenleaf Wittier :
    • That comfortable philosophy which modern transcendentalism has but dimlyshadowed forth — that poetic agrarianism, which gives all to each and each to all— is the real life of this city of unwork .
  • *1963 , Life - Jan 1963:
    • Collective bargaining has a crisis of "unwork'" — that is, work which Justice Douglas once called "unwanted . . . totally useless." So much "' unwork " clutters the table that collective bargaining is no longer able to do what it should: [...]