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
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
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
