shiftlessness

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun shiftlessness has 1 sense

shiftlessness(n = noun.attribute) - a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition;

is a kind of

indolence

laziness

Derived form adjective shiftless₁

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THESAURUS

shiftlessness

dilatoriness, do-nothingness, ergophobia, faineancy, faineantise, fecklessness, hastiness, heedlessness, hoboism, improvidence, indolence, inertia, inexertion, laggardness, lax stewardship, laziness, lotus-eating, negligence, poor husbandry, remissness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, spring fever, thoughtlessness, thriftlessness, vagrancy

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