Laziness

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Laziness \La"zi*ness\, n.
     The state or quality of being lazy.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes
           him.                                     --Franklin.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  laziness
       n 1: inactivity resulting from a dislike of work [syn: {indolence}]
       2: apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified
          as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {sloth}, {acedia}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  laziness
       
          {lazy evaluation}
       
       

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  LAZINESS, n.  Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.