laziness

English

Etymology

From lazy +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

laziness (countable and uncountable, plural lazinesses)

1. 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.”

   • 2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium‎^[1]:

     Generalizing harshly and broadly but implying “you know which ones I mean” is an intellectual and rhetorical laziness that is not allowed to pass anywhere else in these communities.

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: სიზარმაცე (sizarmace)
• German: Faulheit (de) f, Trägheit (de) f
• Greek: τεμπελιά (el) f (tempeliá)
• Gujarati: આળસ f or n (āḷsa)
• 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), 귀차니즘 (gwichanijeum) (neologism)
• Latin: pigritia f
• Macedonian: мрза f (mrza)
• Maori: māngeretanga
• Navajo: iłhóyééʼ
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} сав (sav)
• Old English: slǣwþ f
• Ottoman Turkish: تنبللك (tembellik), هایلازلق (haylazlık), كسل (kesel)
• 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, fiaca (es) f (Argentina), flojera (es) f, desgana (es) f, holgazanería f, acidia (es) f, galbana (es) f (colloquial), vagancia (es) f, flojeritis f (festive), indolencia (es) f, haraganería f, boludencia f, vaguería (es) f, fiacón m (extreme, uncommon, Argentina), pigricia f
• Swahili: uzembe (sw)
• Swedish: lättja (sv) c, lathet (sv) c
• Tagalog: katamaran, kamaymayan
• Telugu: సోమరితనము (te) (sōmaritanamu)
• Thai: ความขี้เกียจ (th)
• Tocharian B: ālasäññe
• Turkish: tembellik (tr)
• Ukrainian: лінощі (linošči), лінь (linʹ)
• Umbundu: epepe
• Vietnamese: sự lười biếng
• Welsh: diogi m