businesslessness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From businessless +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

businesslessness (uncountable)

  1. (very rare) The quality of lacking business or businesses.
    • 1971, Journal of the American Water Works Association, volume 63, page 540:
      Butter vulnerability, though than the threat of businesslessness as dictated by the invention of an environmental engineer from the Electric Boat. Div. of General Dynamics at Groton, Conn.
    • 1997 December 4, zxxx, “suddenly something”, in rec.arts.poems[1] (Usenet):
      my own businesslessness / reading fortunes on the ceiling
    • 2006 June, Bill Menza, “Poem: Why Not Meditate All the Time?”, in The Mindfulness Bell[2], number 42, archived from the original on 2023-08-07:
      Daily sitting meditation, / Businesslessness seem impossible, / Most often always, / Why not meditate on the breath / All the time every moment?