Meaning of the word OTIUM (1 Viewer)

Private life meaning of otium meant personal retirement—the opposite of business. It meant leisure only for one's own pleasure with no benefit to the state or public. Examples here is where one attends only his own farm or estate. Another is hunting. It was the opposite of "active public life".


inhonestum otium - dishonorable leisure, idle self-indulgence leisure.[82]
desidia - slackness, idleness.[9]
inertia - sloth, idleness, indolence.[9]
ignavia - sloth, idleness, faint-heartedness.[9]
desidiosissimum otium - a sluggard's free time, he that fears labor; a man careless to attend to his duty first

Ok I mite have done a bit of creative editing there is a negative and positive description of otium but it all boils down to self indulgence