Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
laziness. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
laziness, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
laziness in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
laziness you have here. The definition of the word
laziness will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
laziness, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
lazy + -ness
Noun
laziness (countable and uncountable, plural lazinesses)
- The quality of being lazy
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 85:“It is thine own laziness, thou false English blood, that doest nothing but drink and sleep,” retorted the page, “and leaves that lither lad to do the work, that he minds as little as thou.”
Translations
quality of being lazy
- Arabic: كَسَل m (kasal)
- Egyptian Arabic: كسل m (kasal)
- Armenian: ծուլություն (hy) (culutʻyun)
- Aromanian: leani f
- Assamese: এলাহ (elah)
- Bashkir: ялҡаулыҡ (yalqawlıq)
- Belarusian: лянота f (ljanóta), гультайства (hulʹtajstva)
- Bikol Central: kahugakan (bcl)
- Bulgarian: мързел (bg) m (mǎrzel), безделие (bg) n (bezdelie)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: peresa (ca) f, mandra (ca) f, accídia (ca) f
- Cebuano: tapol, katapol
- Chichewa: ulesi
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 惰性 (zh) (duòxìng), 懒惰 (zh) (lǎnduò)
- Chukchi: ӄытԓиӄыԓ (qytḷiqyḷ)
- Czech: lenost (cs) f
- Danish: dovenskab (da) c
- Dutch: luiheid (nl) f
- Estonian: laiskus
- Ewe: kuviawɔwɔ
- Faroese: leti f
- Finnish: laiskuus (fi)
- French: paresse (fr) f, flemme (fr) f
- Galician: galloufa f, nugalla (gl) f, taina f, cuxota f, mandría f, apaxo m, doquería f, larchaneiría f, lacazaneiría f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Faulheit (de) f, Trägheit (de) f
- Greek: τεμπελιά (el) f (tempeliá)
- Haitian Creole: parès
- Hebrew: עצלות f (atslút)
- Hungarian: lustaság (hu)
- Icelandic: leti f
- Ilocano: sadut
- Indonesian: kemalasan (id)
- Irish: drogall m
- Italian: pigrizia (it) f
- Japanese: 無精 (ja) (ぶしょう, bushō)
- Khmer: ការខ្ជិល (kaakhcɨl)
- Korean: 게으름 (ko) (geeureum)
- Latin: pigritia f
- Macedonian: мрза f (mrza)
- Maori: māngeretanga
- Navajo: iłhóyééʼ
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) сав (saw)
- Old English: slǣwþ f
- Pangasinan: ngiras
- Polish: lenistwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: preguiça (pt) f
- Quechua: qilla
- Romanian: lene (ro)
- Russian: лень (ru) f (lenʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: leisg f
- Slovak: lenivosť f
- Spanish: pereza (es) f, desidia (es) f
- Swahili: uzembe (sw)
- Swedish: lättja (sv) c, lathet (sv) c
- Tagalog: katamaran, kamaymayan
- Telugu: సోమరితనము (te) (sōmaritanamu)
- Thai: ความขี้เกียจ (th)
- Tocharian B: ālasäññe
- Ukrainian: лінощі (linošči), лінь (linʹ)
- Umbundu: epepe
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: diogi m
|
