Laziness

Synonyms for "laziness" (81 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (17)

Noun(1 words)
acedia

Strong matches (24)

Noun(2 words)
faineanceindolence

Related words (40)

Noun(2 words)
sleuthsloth

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8 relation types

More general

9 entries

Synonyms

2 entries

capable of

1 entries

causes

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causes desire

3 entries

derived from

1 entries

is a

1 entries

related to

1 entries

Translations

101 translations across 63 languages.

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Arabic

2 entries
  • كسل noun (quality of being lazy)
  • كَسَل noun (quality of being lazy)

Armenian

1 entries
  • ծուլություն noun (quality of being lazy)

Aromanian

1 entries
  • leani noun (quality of being lazy)

Assamese

1 entries
  • এলাহ noun (quality of being lazy)

Bashkir

1 entries
  • ялҡаулыҡ noun (quality of being lazy)

Belarusian

2 entries
  • гультайства noun (quality of being lazy)
  • лянота noun (quality of being lazy)

Bikol Central

1 entries
  • kahugakan noun (quality of being lazy)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • безделие noun (quality of being lazy)
  • мързел noun (quality of being lazy)

Catalan

3 entries
  • accídia noun (quality of being lazy)
  • mandra noun (quality of being lazy)
  • peresa noun (quality of being lazy)

Cebuano

2 entries
  • katapol noun (quality of being lazy)
  • tapol noun (quality of being lazy)

Chichewa

1 entries
  • ulesi noun (quality of being lazy)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 惰性 noun (quality of being lazy)
  • 懒惰 noun (quality of being lazy)

Chukchi

1 entries
  • ӄытԓиӄыԓ noun (quality of being lazy)

Czech

1 entries
  • lenost noun (quality of being lazy)

Danish

1 entries
  • dovenskab noun (quality of being lazy)

Dutch

1 entries
  • luiheid noun (quality of being lazy)

Estonian

1 entries
  • laiskus noun (quality of being lazy)

Ewe

1 entries
  • kuviawɔwɔ noun (quality of being lazy)

Faroese

1 entries
  • leti noun (quality of being lazy)

Finnish

1 entries
  • laiskuus noun (quality of being lazy)

French

2 entries
  • flemme noun (quality of being lazy)
  • paresse noun (quality of being lazy)

Galician

4 entries
  • apaxo noun (quality of being lazy)
  • cuxota noun (quality of being lazy)
  • doquería noun (quality of being lazy)
  • galloufa noun (quality of being lazy)

Georgian

1 entries
  • სიზარმაცე noun (quality of being lazy)

German

2 entries
  • Faulheit noun (quality of being lazy)
  • Trägheit noun (quality of being lazy)

Greek

1 entries
  • τεμπελιά noun (quality of being lazy)

Gujarati

1 entries
  • આળસ noun (quality of being lazy)

Haitian Creole

1 entries
  • parès noun (quality of being lazy)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • עצלות noun (quality of being lazy)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • lustaság noun (quality of being lazy)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • leti noun (quality of being lazy)

Ilocano

1 entries
  • sadut noun (quality of being lazy)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • kemalasan noun (quality of being lazy)

Irish

1 entries
  • drogall noun (quality of being lazy)

Italian

1 entries
  • pigrizia noun (quality of being lazy)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 無精 noun (quality of being lazy)

Khmer

1 entries
  • ការខ្ជិល noun (quality of being lazy)

Korean

2 entries
  • 게으름 noun (quality of being lazy)
  • 귀차니즘 noun (quality of being lazy)

Latin

1 entries
  • pigritia noun (quality of being lazy)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • мрза noun (quality of being lazy)

Māori

1 entries
  • māngeretanga noun (quality of being lazy)

Navajo

1 entries
  • iłhóyééʼ noun (quality of being lazy)

Old English

1 entries
  • slǣwþ noun (quality of being lazy)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries
  • تنبللك noun (quality of being lazy)
  • كسل noun (quality of being lazy)
  • هایلازلق noun (quality of being lazy)

Pangasinan

1 entries
  • ngiras noun (quality of being lazy)

Polish

1 entries
  • lenistwo noun (quality of being lazy)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • preguiça noun (quality of being lazy)

Quechua

1 entries
  • qilla noun (quality of being lazy)

Romanian

1 entries
  • lene noun (quality of being lazy)

Russian

1 entries
  • лень noun (quality of being lazy)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • leisg noun (quality of being lazy)

Slovak

1 entries
  • lenivosť noun (quality of being lazy)

Spanish

4 entries
  • acidia noun (quality of being lazy)
  • boludencia noun (quality of being lazy)
  • desgana noun (quality of being lazy)
  • desidia noun (quality of being lazy)

Swahili

1 entries
  • uzembe noun (quality of being lazy)

Swedish

2 entries
  • lathet noun (quality of being lazy)
  • lättja noun (quality of being lazy)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • kamaymayan noun (quality of being lazy)
  • katamaran noun (quality of being lazy)

Telugu

1 entries
  • సోమరితనము noun (quality of being lazy)

Thai

1 entries
  • ความขี้เกียจ noun (quality of being lazy)

Tocharian B

1 entries
  • ālasäññe noun (quality of being lazy)

Turkish

1 entries
  • tembellik noun (quality of being lazy)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • лінощі noun (quality of being lazy)
  • лінь noun (quality of being lazy)

Umbundu

1 entries
  • epepe noun (quality of being lazy)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • sự lười biếng noun (quality of being lazy)

Welsh

1 entries
  • diogi noun (quality of being lazy)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Industrious people look down on laziness.

Source: tatoeba (18840)

Success does not come from laziness.

Source: tatoeba (36267)

This misery resulted from his laziness.

Source: tatoeba (57408)

I am ashamed of my son's laziness.

Source: tatoeba (259209)

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