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FAR NIENTE

Specialty Definition: FAR NIENTE

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Literature

Far Niente (3 syl.). Italian phrase. The Latin otium. Dolce far niente is the sweet enjoyment of having nothing to do, i.e. of a holiday. (See Dolce.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: FAR NIENTE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inaction

Inactivity; rest; (repose); quiescence; want of occupation, inoccupation; idle hours, time hanging on one's hands, dolce far niente; sinecure, featherbed, featherbedding, cushy job, no-show job; soft snap, soft thing.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: FAR NIENTE

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: FAR NIENTE

Expression using "FAR NIENTE": dolce far niente. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FAR NIENTE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

far niente

45

far niente winery

9

far niente wine

5

far niente dolce

4

far niente restaurant toronto

4

far niente restaurant

3

far niente ristorante

2

far niente chardonnay

2

far niente toronto

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FAR NIENTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-n-n-r-t"

-2 letters: arenite, entrain, fainter, infante, interne, retinae, trainee.

-3 letters: afreet, entera, entire, faerie, fainer, fanner, feater, feriae, ferine, inaner, infant, infare, innate, intern, narine, neaten, neater, ratine, refine, rennet, retain, retina, retine, tanner, teniae, tenner, tinner, triene.

-4 letters: aerie, afire, afrit, after, anent, antre, arete, eaten, eater, enate, enter, entia, faint, feint, feria, finer.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-n-n-r-t"
 

+2 letters: inferential, refastening, refrainment.

 

+3 letters: conferential, fenestration, fermentation, freestanding, refrainments.

 

+4 letters: antiforeigner, confederating, confederation, fenestrations, fermentations, franticnesses, frequentation, inferentially, nonfilterable, reinfestation, ultrafeminine, underinflated.

 

+5 letters: aforementioned, antireflection, confederations, defenestrating, defenestration, frequentations, interferential, nonforfeitable, reinfestations, retransferring, transferential.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FAR NIENTE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 41 52      4E 49 45 4E 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01000001 01010010 00100000 01001110 01001001 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#82 &#32 &#78 &#73 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 0052      004E 0049 0045 004E 0054 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4035522484339485439

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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