In Dahl's dictionary
about space, space, unoccupied, empty, free, empty, empty, empty. An idle house, without residents. Idle fields, uncultivated. Idle dishes, empty. An idle place, not occupied by anyone, where you can stand, lie down, sit, no one’s; or position, service from which the person left, vacant. | About a thing, a walking projectile, of no use to anyone at this time. Do you have an idle spinning wheel, an ax, or a scythe? Idle time, when there is nothing to do, nothing to work, free. | About a person who is walking, wandering, idle, doing nothing or not doing anything, a crank, a lazy person, a lazy person. If you are idle, you will encounter sin. The demon shakes the idle. Idle youth - dissolute old age. | Idle, vain, empty, in which there is nothing practical or useful. Idle words, absurd, empty. Idle undertakings. with nothing to do, empty inventions. An idle house, vain amusements. | Idle, about a woman, a non-pregnant female animal, opposite sex. not idle. Holiday week, old man. festive, this is holy, Easter. You say this idly, in vain, nonsense, or slander. Idleness comp. according to adj. Idleness is the mother of vices. To celebrate, to be idle, or not to do, not to work. In bad weather, mowers celebrate. At twilight we celebrate, twilight, walk, relax, do nothing. | To celebrate something or something, to celebrate, to celebrate a holiday: to leave work and rest, according to custom, on the day of memory of someone or something; | to celebrate such a day solemnly, with everyday rituals; | perform church rituals, in honor or in memory of the events of the church. Craftsmen celebrate only church holidays, and work on civilian ones. We celebrated the Borodino anniversary with gunfire, lights and a feast. He doesn’t celebrate his name days, he only attends mass. Who, what saint is being celebrated today? What, what event are we celebrating? To celebrate is a coward, to be afraid, to be cowardly, to be timid. -sya, let's celebrate. Celebrate until Belautr. We celebrated and signed up. We celebrated our name day. We celebrated a little. We celebrated all night. Celebration Wed. valid according to verb. Celebrator, -nitsa, celebrating something, or spending his time idly. Celebration Wed. Psk festival hard feast or celebration, celebration of something with rituals, feasts, etc. honoring an event or memory of a German. | The festival, the church, will teach many people evil. idleness. Festive, related to celebration. A holiday or holiday in general, a day dedicated to rest, not business, not work, opposite gender. weekday; a day celebrated according to the charter of the church, or on the occasion and in memory of a civil, state event, or according to local custom, on an occasion relating to the locality, to a person. Feasts of the Lord, the Lord's, established in honor of the Lord. Royal holiday, birth, name day of the sovereign, commemoration of coronation, etc. Family holiday, home holiday. Happy holiday! I congratulate you! in mockery, on the occasion of unpleasantness: well, at the holiday, about trouble. God always has a holiday. With God, every day is a holiday. For the rich, everything (all, every day) is a holiday. Every soul is happy about the holiday. To a good man, this day is also a holiday. They ring a thick bell, it's a holiday. And the fool knows that the great day is a holiday. Take note of everyday life, and the holidays will come on their own. Today is a holiday for Saint Lytus, the Reverend Skiliaga. Tryphon the guslist, Kharlampy the bandura player, and their mother Khnyhny of the Dutch miracle workers, holiday. Holiday: the wife teases her husband (the devil teases with his tongue). And the naked man is not without celebration. Even if it’s in piles, it’s a holiday. What does anyone care about us if we have a holiday? For the holiday of Christ, it is not a sin to drink a glass of prostov. A golden crown for an honest holiday, and many years of good health for the owner! Anyone who is happy about the holiday is drunk until dawn. Holidays are frequent, but the hands are the same. The holiday has two slaves: one is thirsty, but has nothing to buy it for, and the other is treated to food, but is not thirsty! In Moscow, every day is a holiday (in many churches). The fool is happy for the holiday. And the fool knows the holiday, but does not remember everyday life. Holidays are memorable, but everyday life is forgettable. The prankish guy works even on holidays. On the holiday, don’t let fire from the house, the cattle will die. On holiday, the sparrow also has beer. Love the holiday and brew beer. Such a holiday that on this day even sinners are not tormented in hell (Blessing and Bright Sunday). Holiday, celebration Psk. hard local festival, religious procession, etc. | Give a holiday, celebration, arrange a celebration, feast or celebration. Our tax farmer set a holiday. Feast of holidays, day of the Resurrection of Christ. There is a holiday on our street, we took it, we achieved what we wanted. To be at a holiday, to stumble upon trouble. Temple holiday, patronal, or throne, day of remembrance of an event or saint in whose name the temple was built. And the pig lives another holiday, the drunkard’s excuse. Festive clothes, decoration. Festive feast. Festive view of the city. A festive dream before lunch, i.e. it is decided whether it will come true or not. | Festive Friday, Saint Paraskevi's Day, October 28, Festive Church. Holiday Tver Psk. Same. Celebrate, celebrate, meaning. walk, relax and then do nothing; | walk, feast, revel. You celebrate so much that they drive you away from your place. The coachman celebrated and started drinking. The people were feasted. We had a lot of fun. We've celebrated, it's time to come to our senses. We'll celebrate for three days. We celebrated the night. Celebration, action by value verb An idle person, an idle lover, a bets, a lyubka, a bitsa, a lazy person, a parasite, a crank, an enemy of labor, work. Idle-loving, loving church. honoring church holidays. Idleness or love cf. laziness, desire for idleness, weeklessness. An idle person, a wise person, a superstitious person. To celebrate, to vainly and to vainly. Very much - they are famous in vain. Idle talk, idle talk cf. idle talk. An idle talker, an idle talker, who is an idle talker. Celebration of the church. - wandering, - wandering, revelry, parasitism, vagrancy and idle life, wandering around without business, without work. Idle eater m. parasite, parasite.
Use in speech
The current designation has not changed. It is used as an adjective to people who value their own comforts over the regular performance of everyday things - work, employment, hobbies, improvement.
Synonyms for “idleness” in speech can be:
- Laziness.
- Indifference to activity.
- Apathy.
- Inactivity at work.
Attitudes towards free time are different. Some attribute a positive aspect to idleness because it allows you to take a break, gain strength, reflect on difficult situations and reduce the importance of problems. Others react negatively, believing that a person is obliged to work, develop and rest less so as not to lose social and professional skills.
Thus, “idle” is used to refer to idle people who are indifferent to activity and prefer not to part with their own comfort for a long time.
In the dictionary D.N. Ushakova
Idle sign, idle, idle; idle, idle, idle (book). 1. Empty, empty, unoccupied (book, poet, outdated). “Only a cobweb of fine hair glitters on an idle furrow.” Tyutchev. 2. Idle, not filled with business, work. “They led an idle life, but not a dissolute one.” Pushkin. “Horses... become lazy in an idle life and have filled their bellies.” Herzen. Idle wandering around the city. | Doing nothing, living without anything to do. “And who, dear friend, tells you to be idle?” Griboyedov. “He called books fables: “Isn’t reading the same as wasting time idlely (adv.)?” Nekrasov. 3. Empty, meaningless, generated by idleness (in 2 meanings). Idle curiosity. Idle talk. Idle chatter. | Vain, having no chance of success, useless. Idle attempts.
Historical roots
The origin of the word is associated with the Old Russian adjective “empty”, which was used to describe a person without housework, without employment or type of activity. Over time, when the term passed into the Old Church Slavonic language, it acquired a second meaning - a holiday. The decoding of the concept has been preserved to this day.
The meaning of the word “idle” reached its usual form only in common Slavic writing thanks to the creation of vocabulary by Cyril and Methodius. The modified suffix added to the transformed phrase meant "to burst, crack", which alluded to the person's moral emptiness in a negative context.
Origin
If you look in an etymological dictionary, asking the question: “What is idleness?”, you won’t find the answer there. Because there is “holiday” there, but “idleness” is not. But we still find out what this word means.
It is said that “holiday” was borrowed from Old Church Slavonic, where there was an adjective “idle,” that is, “free from work.” By the way, this is why holidays, on the one hand, are weekends, and on the other hand, they are held when there is no need to go anywhere.
Idleness Idle
Idleness as a personality quality is the tendency to spend time aimlessly without anything to do, in useless walking and wandering.
One man died and found himself in a beautiful garden, among fountains and fruit trees, on the branches of which beautiful birds sang with gentle voices. A shining winged figure appeared in front of him and said: “I am at your service, my lord.” Demand whatever you want. The man asked for food - and the servant, waving his hand, created a table with the most luxurious dishes. The man wanted to drink - jugs of spring water, juices and the best wine appeared in front of him. The man wanted to rest - a bed appeared, and beautiful girls with fans stood nearby. The man wanted sex - and the girls put down their fans... So a day passed, two, three... And the man became bored of spending his days eating, walking and other entertainment. He said to the servant: “I would like to do some work.” - Ask for anything, but not for this. Do you want to enjoy music, beautiful dancers, horse riding, lion hunting, birdsong, fine wines? Just tell me! The man spent several more weeks in idleness and entertainment. And again he became bored. He again called the servant and said: “Give me some work.” - There is no work here. Here for you there is only relaxation and entertainment. You will live forever in idleness and pleasure. “Then you better send me to hell!” - the man shouted in anger. The winged servant laughed and asked: “You still don’t understand where you are?”
Idleness is an insult to time. She is the mother of all vices. From doing nothing, bad and sometimes crazy thoughts come into an idle head. For a “curly” life, money is needed, but coins do not fall under a celebrating person. We have to invent various, often vile and criminal, means of how to get money. Lies, betrayal, deceit, perfidy, theft, manipulation - this is not a complete list of tools used by an idle individual to make money. A.P. Chekhov correctly noted: “An idle life cannot be pure.” It entails depravity, disease and suffering. A purposeful mind, on the contrary, gives a person vigor and joy of life. Hippocrates also wrote: “Idleness and idleness entail depravity and ill health; on the contrary, the aspiration of the mind towards something brings vigor, eternally aimed at strengthening life.” Ibn Sina (Avicenna) echoes him: “Idleness and idleness not only give rise to ignorance, they at the same time are the cause of illness.”
If forced labor is the road to misfortune, then idleness is the well-worn road to madness. For a person under the influence of the energy of goodness, an idle life is worse than death. A good person and idleness are antipodes. Every moment of your life should be spent usefully. A person in goodness considers as wasted time the moments not spent on self-improvement, serving other people and God.
He who finds pleasure in idleness is under the influence of the power of ignorance and lives in the illusion of happiness. When a person is constantly in a state of “relaxation”, allowing himself more pleasure than necessary, he gradually becomes a prisoner of his lustful, restless mind and insatiable feelings, that is, ultimately, he turns into a slave and a madman.
The mad and idle Roman emperor Caligula once decided to declare war on the god of the seas, Poseidon, after which he ordered his soldiers to randomly throw their spears into the water. Idleness and illness turned him into a real monster. For carnal pleasures, Caligula took noble women from their legal husbands and cohabited with all three of his sisters. Caligula loved his middle sister, Drusilla, especially deeply and, like the others, having taken her away from her husband, he without hesitation kept her as his legal wife. And after her death, Caligula declared such mourning, during which any manifestations of joy were considered a mortal crime. He himself, unable to bear the grief of loss, suddenly left Rome at night and went into the desert, and returned just as quickly with his hair and beard growing. Already in 38, Caligula declared himself a god and began to appear in the clothes of deities and with their attributes - the lightning of Jupiter, the trident of Neptune and the rod of Pluto, and sometimes even in the clothes of Venus. The story of how Caligula tried to make a senator out of his favorite horse is widely known.
Idleness is the overgrowth of the soul. The big minus of idleness is that it is disastrous for the mind and spiritual life. If your intellectual and spiritual needs are not met, the mind and soul lose their abilities without training. For example, if a pianist does not play for a long time, he will need time to achieve perfection in his playing. The biceps of the mind and soul need constant exercise, otherwise they will become flabby and flaccid. Idleness is anemia of the soul and mind. An abandoned soul turns into an uncultivated field overgrown with weeds. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote: “Idleness results in mental and physical flabbiness.”
People call an idle person someone who is lazy and fools around. The etymology of this catchphrase is interesting. In ancient Rus', peasants literally drove priests through the fields to get a good harvest or cause rain.
As noted in ethnographic descriptions, “peasants (usually women) asked the priest or sexton to lie on the ground so that “the sheaves would be heavy,” “the crops would be fat”; if the clergy refused to do this, they were thrown to the ground and rolled by force.” The priests, understandably, did not like this custom, but you can’t do anything for money... For example, many scientists describe the custom of rolling a priest in full vestments across the field after the harvest in order to return to the field its power to produce bread. And during a drought, the priest was doused with water to make it rain. Probably something similar was done with pagan priests before. And the priest had to endure all this. If he came into conflict with parishioners, he often remained unconvinced, but without food.
In the spring, as soon as the winter crops begin to grow, the Karelians invite the priest to the field to serve a prayer service. After the prayer service, they grab the priest, throw him to the ground and roll him through the winter. According to the Karelians, this contributes to such a harvest that the rye, from the fatness of the grain, will bend to the ground, as winter crops now bend under the weight of the priest. The priest could prove to the peasants the futility of such an event, but then the peasants would not invite him to serve a prayer service, and he would lose his additional income. It turns out that it was better for the priest to ride in the winter than to lose him. Why a fool? Let us remember A.S. Pushkin: “Once upon a time there was a priest with a thick forehead.” “Brown forehead” is a contemptuous nickname for a fool or a fool.
The English diplomat F. Chesterfield wrote: “Idleness is one of the ways to commit suicide.” It is possible to understand the essence of idleness only after understanding what virtue it is parasitic on. Idleness (based on Russian etymology) is not a bad state. The question is, for what? After all, in Slavic, idleness is unburdenedness, unoccupiedness, freedom. σχολάζων <scholazon> from σχολή <scholi> - leisure is suitable for this understanding of idleness It is not for nothing that celebrations when a person is relieved of his duties are called holidays. For example, in some spiritual traditions, Saturday is a day of rest. A person must have time to satisfy his emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs. This is what holidays are for. Idleness is a completely different matter, as is constant unemployment and emptiness. It prevents a person from joining higher values and self-improvement.
Petr Kovalev 2013 Other articles by the author: https://www.podskazki.info/karta-statej/
The benefits and harms of idleness
So, we found out what idleness is, but something else is interesting: is there any benefit to it? We are constantly told about the dangers of idleness. There is even an opinion that the best rest is a change of activity. But if we imagine that we are constantly changing activities, then a moment will come when we want to lie down, doing nothing. And this desire should not be resisted, otherwise the psyche will be disrupted at some point, and nervous exhaustion of the body will occur.
True, the advice cannot be taken in the spirit that every attack of laziness signals to us that we are extremely overtired, so we urgently need to lie down and sleep for two weeks. No, the recommendation is only good for those who are busy with at least something.
By the way, the question, what is idleness, suggests a banal answer: we must also talk about the dangers of doing nothing.
Unemployed people who remain unemployed for a long time show signs of clinical depression. To them, idleness turns its demonic side, and rest turns into a heavy burden. Laziness and lack of daily exercise not only negatively affects your physical condition, but also your psychological one. A person begins to be overcome by heavy and gloomy thoughts, the hopelessness of the situation, and bad habits may appear. As a result, he ends up dissatisfied with himself, stops enjoying life, and objectively perceives the picture of the world.
Of course, there is a way out. It involves a reasonable combination of periods of work and rest. You can’t earn all the money, but having a good rest (getting high) from time to time does not bother anyone. And if you think that high is some kind of bad term, then you are mistaken. The word “high” has been known since the 19th century, and then it meant “rest.”
