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laziness

noun
/ˈleɪ.zi.nəs/US

Etymology

From lazy + -ness.

  1. derived from *las-✻ — “weak”
  2. derived from *lasiwaz✻
  3. derived from lask
  4. derived from lasich — “slack, feeble, lazy”
  5. suffixed as laziness — “lazy + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being lazy

    • “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.”
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at laziness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at laziness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at laziness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA