laziness

Other forms of laziness

plural

lazinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about laziness

What does laziness mean?

laziness means "inactivity resulting from a dislike of work". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laziness?

laziness has 3 syllables: la-zi-ness. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˈleɪzinəs/.

What is another word for laziness?

Close synonyms include indolence, sloth, acedia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laziness a common word?

laziness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.