Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
LAZINESS
sloth, laziness, acedia
(noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
laziness
(noun) relaxed and easy activity; “the laziness of the day helped her to relax”
indolence, laziness
(noun) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
laziness (countable and uncountable, plural lazinesses)
The quality of being lazy
Source: Wiktionary
La"zi*ness, n.
Definition: The state or quality of being lazy. Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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