leisureness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

leisure +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

leisureness (uncountable)

  1. (dated) The quality of being leisurely.
    • 1759, The London and Country Brewer, 7th edition:
      But pale Malts will be fit for Use at a Week's End, because the Leisureness of their Drying endows them with a Softness from the Time they are taken off the Kiln to the Time they are brewed […]
    • 2018, Abraham Merritt, The Collected SF & Fantasy Works:
      How else explain the seeming slowness with which we were falling — the seeming leisureness with which the wall drifted up past us?

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