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Laziness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Laziness has 3 senses
- laziness(n = noun.attribute) indolence - inactivity resulting from a dislike of work; Array is a kind of inactiveness, inactivity, inertia
- laziness(n = noun.act) Array - relaxed and easy activity; "the laziness of the day helped her to relax" is a kind of ease, relaxation, repose, rest
- laziness(n = noun.act) acedia, sloth - apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins); Array is a kind of deadly sin, mortal sin
has particulars: faineance, idleness, shiftlessness
Derived form adjective lazy2
Derived form adjective lazy1
Derived form adjective lazy2
CIDE DICTIONARY
Laziness, n.
The state or quality of being lazy. [1913 Webster]
"Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
Laziness
abandon, careless abandon, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, circumspection, creeping, cursoriness, deliberateness, deliberation, dilatoriness, disregardfulness, do-nothingness, drawl, easiness, ergophobia, faineancy, faineantise, foot-dragging, forgetfulness, hastiness, heedlessness, hoboism, idleness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, inexertion, insouciance, lack of foresight, laggardness, languor, laze, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, lotus-eating, oblivion, offhandedness, perfunctoriness, pokiness, recklessness, regardlessness, reluctance, remissness, shiftlessness, slackness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, sprezzatura, spring fever, tactlessness, tentativeness, thoughtlessness, unheedfulness, unmindfulness, unpreparedness, unreadiness, unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unthinkingness, vagrancy
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