Lazyness

la·zy (l

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adj. la·zi·er, la·zi·est

1. Resistant to work or exertion; disposed to idleness.

2. Slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy river.

3. Conducive to idleness or indolence: a lazy summer day.

4. Depicted as reclining or lying on its side. Used of a brand on livestock.

[Probably of Low German origin.]

lazi·ly adv.

lazi·ness n.

Synonyms: lazy, fainéant, idle, indolent, slothful
These adjectives mean not disposed to exertion, work, or activity: too lazy to wash the dishes; fainéant aristocrats; an idle drifter; an indolent hanger-on; slothful employees.

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	laziness - inactivity resulting from a dislike of work indolence inertia, inactiveness, inactivity - a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work" faineance, idleness - the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work shiftlessness - a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition
	2.	laziness - relaxed and easy activity; "the laziness of the day helped her to relax" repose, rest, ease, relaxation - freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"
	3.	laziness - apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) acedia, sloth deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins"

laziness

noun idleness, negligence, inactivity, slowness, sloth, sluggishness, slackness, indolence, tardiness, dilatoriness, slothfulness, do-nothingness, faineance Current employment laws will be changed to reward effort and punish laziness.

Translations

laziness [ˈleɪzɪnɪs] N → pereza f, flojera f (esp LAm)

laziness [ˈleɪzinɪs] n → paresse f

laziness

n → Faulheit f; (= languor) → Trägheit f

laziness [ˈleɪzɪnɪs] n → pigrizia

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acedia
deadly sin
ease
faineance
faineancy
idleness
inactiveness
inactivity
indolence
inertia
Inexertion
inveterate
languor
mortal sin
Postponer
procrastinator
pull one's weight
relaxation
repose

Certainly the change is one from "swiftness" (swift and swiftness are both used in the description of the god) to lazyness (lazy is used).

The thematic organization of Spirits in Bondage by Christopher, Joe R. / Mythlore

My oldest was 7 and we told her no more pull-ups and it only took her a week to start getting up to go to the bathroom and quit peeing on herself out of pure lazyness and not wanting to get out of bed.

Best Ways to Get Rid of Bedwetting by Richard James / Health, general community

And already during the cumbersome ascent, Petrarch explains the allegory behind his own lazyness and self-deception as he reflects on having, three times in a row, selected an apparently gentler route, only to find himself cut-off from the remainder of his party: Sic sepe delusus quadam in valle consedi.

Nature's farthest verge or landscapes beyond allegory and rhetorical ... by Sobecki, Sebastian / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies

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