leisureliness
leisureliness noun: the property of being leisurely.
Noun
leisureliness (uncountable)
- 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
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