oisiveté
French, noun/wa.ziv.te/
oisiveté is spelled O-I-S-I-V-E-T-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oisiveté is a French feminine noun meaning “idleness (of a person), as in laziness or indolence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État, habitude d’une personne qui est oisive, qui ne fait rien”.
What does oisiveté mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineidleness (of a person), as in laziness or indolence
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État, habitude d’une personne qui est oisive, qui ne fait rien.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of oisiveté
- oisivetés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oisiveté?
- /wa.ziv.te/
- \wa.ziv.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oisiveté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oisiveté in French?
oisiveté appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).