Leisureliness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The property of being leisurely. uncountable
"[…] their Local Motion […] is neither by Fins nor Wings, as in Fishes or Birds, who are fain to sustain themselves by these instruments from sinking to the bottome of either Element: but it is meerly by the direction of the agitation of the particles of their Vehicle toward the place they aime at; and in such a swiftness or leasureliness as best pleases themselves, and is competible to their natures."
- 2 slowness by virtue of being leisurely wordnet
Example
More examples"[…] their Local Motion […] is neither by Fins nor Wings, as in Fishes or Birds, who are fain to sustain themselves by these instruments from sinking to the bottome of either Element: but it is meerly by the direction of the agitation of the particles of their Vehicle toward the place they aime at; and in such a swiftness or leasureliness as best pleases themselves, and is competible to their natures."
Etymology
From leisurely + -ness.
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