LA'ZINESS, noun [from lazy.] 1. The state or quality of being lazy; indisposition to action or exertion; indolence; sluggishness; heaviness in motion; habitual sloth. laziness differs from idleness; the latter being a mere defect or cessation of action, but laziness is sloth, with natural or habitual disinclination to action. Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. 2. Slowness; tardiness.
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