slothfulness
91sloth — noun who is responsible for the sloth of this department? Syn: laziness, idleness, indolence, slothfulness, inactivity, inertia, sluggishness, shiftlessness, apathy, acedia, listlessness, lassitude, lethargy, languor, torpidity; literary hebetude …
92application — concentration, *attention, study Analogous words: intentness, engrossment, absorption (see corresponding adjectives at INTENT): toil, grind, drudgery (see WORK): sedulousness, assiduousness, industriousness or industry, diligence (see… …
93lethargy — lethargy, languor, lassitude, stupor, torpor, torpidity are comparable when meaning physical and mental inertness. Lethargy implies a state marked by an aversion to activity which may be constitutional but is typically induced by disease, extreme …
94idleness — n 1. inoccupation, unemployment, idle hands, idle hours, time on one s hands; leisure, ease, Chiefly Literary. idlesse, spare time, free time, Inf. time to burn, Inf. dodge time, command time; vacation, recess, Inf. letup. 2. inertness, inertia,… …
95indolence — n laziness, idleness, otiosity, otioseness, faindance, faineancy, shiftlessness; procrastination, dilatoriness, slothfulness, sluggardliness, laggardness; slowness, slow motion, heaviness, loginess, sluggishness, lethargy, slackness, languidness …
96languor — n 1. weakness, faintness, feebleness, frailty, enfeeblement; debility, Pathol. asthenia, Pathol. adynemia, Pathol. atony; decrepitude, infirmness, infirmity, sickliness, invalidism; strain, eyestrain, fatigue, tiredness, enervation, exhaustion;… …
97lassitude — n 1. languor, languidness, lethargy, sluggishness, loginess, heaviness, slow motion, slowness; drowsiness, sleepiness, soporiferousness, oscitance, oscitancy; stagnation, stagnancy, stagnance, inaction, inactivity, inactiveness, inexertion,… …
98laziness — n 1. idleness, indolence, slothfulness, sloth, faineance, do nothingness, otiosity; unin lazy leaden dustriousness, unenterprisingness, unambitiousness, want or lack of ambition or enterprise, nonaggressiveness; listlessness, Dial. limpsiness,… …
99listlessness — n 1. languor, languidness, lassitude, ennui, Inf. the blahs; phlegmaticness, lethargy, sluggishness, fatigue, weariness, enervation; hebetude, heaviness, phlegm, leadenness, drowsiness, sleepiness, (in the Middle East) kef; lackadaisicalness,… …
100sloth — n 1. slothfulness, acedia, laziness, idleness, indolence, faineance, do nothingness, otiosity; unin dustriousness, unenterprisingness, unambitiousness, want or lack of ambition or enterprise, nonag gressiveness; listlessness, Dial. limpsiness,… …
