It has already been remarked that the term "leisure", as here used, does not connote indolence or quiescence. What it connotes is non-productive consumption of time. Time is consumed non-productively from a sense of the unworthiness of productive work.

Veblen, Thorstein: THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASSS (1899)

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