do-nothingness
Apparence
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]- Dérivé de do-nothing, avec le suffixe -ness.
Nom commun
[modifier le wikicode]do-nothingness \Prononciation ?\ invariable
- (Indénombrable) Oisiveté, inactivité.
From the outset O’Shiel, who had coined the phrase ‘a policy of do-nothingness’ in preference to violent provocation of Northern Ireland during the civil war, was adamant about the need for efforts to centre on publicity and propaganda: …
— (Diarmaid Ferriter, The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics, Profile Books, 2019, page 27)