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leisureliness

leisureliness noun: the property of being leisurely.

Noun

leisureliness (uncountable)

  1. The property of being leisurely.
    • […] 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...1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, London: William Morden, Book 3, Chapter 5, pp. 379-380
    • […] he frequently commenced a long-winded narrative of his own accord,—repeated at length the tradition of some old battle, or some passage in the recent history of his tribe in which he had acted a prominent part, from time to time drawing a long breath, and resuming the thread of his tale, with...1864, Henry David Thoreau, “The Allegash and East Branch”, in The Maine Woods, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 296

Origin of leisureliness

From leisurely + -ness.

Questions about leisureliness

What does leisureliness mean?
Leisureliness means the property of being leisurely.
What part of speech is leisureliness?
Leisureliness is a noun.

Words near leisureliness in the dictionary

  1. leisureful
  2. leisureless
  3. leisurelessness
  4. leisurelier
  5. leisurelily
  6. leisureliness
  7. leisurely
  8. leisureness
  9. leisureplex
  10. leisureplexes
  11. leisures

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