Exact Match:
- shiftlessness
- a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition
Synonyms:
- dilatoriness,
- do-nothingness,
- ergophobia,
- faineancy,
- faineantise,
- fecklessness,
- hastiness,
- heedlessness,
- hoboism,
- improvidence,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inexertion,
- laggardness,
- lax stewardship,
- laziness,
- lotus-eating,
- negligence,
- poor husbandry,
- remissness,
- sloth,
- slothfulness,
- slowness,
- spring fever,
- thoughtlessness,
- thriftlessness,
- vagrancy
Related Words:
- sluggishness
collapse - the pace of things that move relatively slowly; "the sluggishness of the economy"; "the sluggishness of the compass in the Arctic cold" related words >
- improvidence
collapse
- a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources related words >
- brashness,
- brass,
- brazen boldness,
- cheek,
- chutzpah,
- fecklessness,
- gall,
- hastiness,
- heedlessness,
- heroics,
- hubris,
- imprudence,
- impudence,
- indiscretion,
- injudiciousness,
- insolence,
- lax stewardship,
- negligence,
- overboldness,
- overcarelessness,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweeningness,
- poor husbandry,
- rashness,
- shiftlessness,
- temerariousness,
- temerity,
- thoughtlessness,
- thriftlessness,
- unchariness,
- unwariness
- vagrancy
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- the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood related words >
- Wanderjahr,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- bumming,
- dilatoriness,
- discursion,
- divagation,
- do-nothingness,
- drifting,
- ergophobia,
- errantry,
- faineancy,
- faineantise,
- flitting,
- gadding,
- hoboism,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inexertion,
- itineracy,
- itinerancy,
- laggardness,
- laziness,
- lotus-eating,
- nomadism,
- peregrination,
- pererration,
- ramble,
- rambling,
- remissness,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rove,
- roving,
- shiftlessness,
- sloth,
- slothfulness,
- slowness,
- spring fever,
- straying,
- traipsing,
- vagabondage,
- vagabondia,
- vagabondism,
- wandering,
- wanderlust,
- wayfaring
- laziness
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- relaxed and easy activity; "the laziness of the day helped her to relax" related words >
- abandon,
- careless abandon,
- carelessness,
- casualness,
- cautiousness,
- circumspection,
- creeping,
- cursoriness,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- dilatoriness,
- disregardfulness,
- do-nothingness,
- drawl,
- easiness,
- ergophobia,
- faineancy,
- faineantise,
- foot-dragging,
- forgetfulness,
- hastiness,
- heedlessness,
- hoboism,
- idleness,
- inconsiderateness,
- inconsideration,
- indifference,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- inexertion,
- insouciance,
- lack of foresight,
- laggardness,
- languor,
- laze,
- leisureliness,
- lentitude,
- lentor,
- lotus-eating,
- oblivion,
- offhandedness,
- perfunctoriness,
- pokiness,
- recklessness,
- regardlessness,
- reluctance,
- remissness,
- shiftlessness,
- slackness,
- sloth,
- slothfulness,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- sluggardy,
- sluggishness,
- sprezzatura,
- spring fever,
- tactlessness,
- tentativeness,
- thoughtlessness,
- unheedfulness,
- unmindfulness,
- unpreparedness,
- unreadiness,
- unsolicitousness,
- unsolicitude,
- unthinkingness,
- vagrancy
- hastiness
collapse
- hasty impulsiveness related words >
- abandon,
- abruptness,
- alacrity,
- careless abandon,
- carelessness,
- casualness,
- cursoriness,
- desperateness,
- devil-may-careness,
- disregardfulness,
- easiness,
- expeditiousness,
- fecklessness,
- feverishness,
- forgetfulness,
- forwardness,
- furiousness,
- haste,
- heedlessness,
- hotheadedness,
- hurriedness,
- impatience,
- impetuosity,
- impetuousness,
- improvidence,
- impulse,
- impulsiveness,
- inconsiderateness,
- inconsideration,
- indifference,
- insouciance,
- lack of foresight,
- lax stewardship,
- laziness,
- negligence,
- oblivion,
- offhandedness,
- overeagerness,
- overenthusiasm,
- overhastiness,
- overzealousness,
- perfunctoriness,
- poor husbandry,
- precipitance,
- precipitancy,
- precipitateness,
- precipitation,
- precipitousness,
- precociousness,
- precocity,
- prematureness,
- prematurity,
- promptness,
- quickness,
- rashness,
- recklessness,
- regardlessness,
- rush,
- shiftlessness,
- speed,
- sprezzatura,
- suddenness,
- swiftness,
- tactlessness,
- thoughtlessness,
- thriftlessness,
- unheedfulness,
- unmindfulness,
- unpreparedness,
- unreadiness,
- unsolicitousness,
- unsolicitude,
- unthinkingness,
- untimeliness,
- wantonness,
- wildness
- indolence
collapse
- inactivity resulting from a dislike of work related words >
- a wise passiveness,
- abeyance,
- apathy,
- catalepsy,
- catatonia,
- cautiousness,
- circumspection,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- creeping,
- deadliness,
- deathliness,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- dilatoriness,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dolce far niente,
- dormancy,
- drawl,
- entropy,
- ergophobia,
- faineancy,
- faineantise,
- foot-dragging,
- hoboism,
- idleness,
- immobility,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- indifference,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- inexertion,
- just being,
- laggardness,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- languidness,
- languor,
- lassitude,
- latency,
- laze,
- laziness,
- leisureliness,
- lentitude,
- lentor,
- lethargy,
- listlessness,
- lotus-eating,
- meditation,
- mere existence,
- mere tropism,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- oscitancy,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- pokiness,
- policy,
- procrastination,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- reluctance,
- remissness,
- shiftlessness,
- slackness,
- sloth,
- slothfulness,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- sluggardy,
- sluggishness,
- spring fever,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- suspense,
- tentativeness,
- torpidity,
- torpor,
- vagrancy,
- vegetation,
- vis inertiae,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting
- idleness
collapse
- having no employment related words >
- a wise passiveness,
- big deal,
- cautiousness,
- circumspection,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- creeping,
- dawdling,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dolce far niente,
- dormancy,
- drawl,
- emptiness,
- flimsiness,
- foolishness,
- foot-dragging,
- frivolity,
- frivolousness,
- futility,
- idle hands,
- idle hours,
- immobility,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- inanity,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- inoccupation,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- languor,
- lassitude,
- laze,
- laziness,
- lazing,
- leisureliness,
- lentitude,
- lentor,
- lethargy,
- levity,
- lightness,
- loafing,
- lollygagging,
- malingering,
- meditation,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- nugacity,
- otiosity,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- pokiness,
- policy,
- procrastination,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- reluctance,
- shallowness,
- shiftlessness,
- shilly-shallying,
- shirking,
- silliness,
- slackness,
- slenderness,
- slightness,
- sloth,
- slothfulness,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- sluggardy,
- sluggishness,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- superficiality,
- tentativeness,
- torpor,
- triflingness,
- triteness,
- triviality,
- trivialness,
- unemployment,
- vacuity,
- vanity,
- vapidity,
- vegetation,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting
- inertia
collapse
- (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain is state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force related words >
- a wise passiveness,
- abeyance,
- apathy,
- catalepsy,
- catatonia,
- cautiousness,
- circumspection,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- creeping,
- deadliness,
- deathliness,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- dilatoriness,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dormancy,
- drawl,
- dullness,
- entropy,
- ergophobia,
- faineancy,
- faineantise,
- firmness,
- foot-dragging,
- hibernation,
- hoboism,
- idleness,
- immobility,
- immobilization,
- immovability,
- immovableness,
- inaction,
- inactiveness,
- inactivity,
- indifference,
- indolence,
- inertness,
- inexertion,
- inextricability,
- inflexibility,
- irremovability,
- just being,
- laggardness,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- languor,
- lassitude,
- latency,
- laziness,
- leisureliness,
- lentitude,
- lentor,
- listlessness,
- lotus-eating,
- lull,
- meditation,
- mere existence,
- mere tropism,
- motionlessness,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- pokiness,
- policy,
- procrastination,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- reluctance,
- remissness,
- rigidity,
- shiftlessness,
- slackness,
- sloth,
- slothfulness,
- slowness,
- sluggardy,
- sluggishness,
- solidity,
- spring fever,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- suspense,
- suspension,
- tentativeness,
- torpor,
- underactivity,
- unmovability,
- unyieldingness,
- vagrancy,
- vegetation,
- vis inertiae,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting
- abandon,
- absentmindedness,
- asininity,
- battiness,
- brainlessness,
- buffoonery,
- callowness,
- caprice,
- careless abandon,
- carelessness,
- casualness,
- childishness,
- clownishness,
- crackpottedness,
- crankiness,
- craziness,
- cursoriness,
- daffiness,
- desipience,
- disregard,
- disregardfulness,
- distraction,
- easiness,
- eccentricity,
- empty-headedness,
- fatuity,
- fatuousness,
- fecklessness,
- flightiness,
- flippancy,
- folly,
- foolery,
- foolheadedness,
- foolishness,
- forgetfulness,
- frivolity,
- frivolousness,
- giddiness,
- goofiness,
- hastiness,
- heedlessness,
- idiocy,
- imbecility,
- immaturity,
- improvidence,
- imprudence,
- inability,
- inadeptness,
- inadequacy,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inadvisability,
- inanity,
- inaptitude,
- inaptness,
- inattention,
- inattentiveness,
- incapability,
- incapacity,
- incompetence,
- incompetency,
- inconsiderateness,
- inconsideration,
- incuriosity,
- indexterity,
- indifference,
- indiscreetness,
- indiscretion,
- ineffectiveness,
- ineffectuality,
- inefficiency,
- ineptitude,
- ineptness,
- inexpedience,
- injudiciousness,
- inobservance,
- insanity,
- insouciance,
- irrationality,
- lack of foresight,
- lax stewardship,
- laziness,
- levity,
- lightmindedness,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- maladjustment,
- maladroitness,
- mediocrity,
- mercuriality,
- mindlessness,
- negligence,
- niaiserie,
- nonobservance,
- nugacity,
- nuttiness,
- oblivion,
- obliviousness,
- offhandedness,
- pedestrianism,
- perfunctoriness,
- pompousness,
- poor husbandry,
- puerility,
- queerness,
- reasonlessness,
- recklessness,
- regardlessness,
- rustiness,
- sappiness,
- screwiness,
- senselessness,
- shallowness,
- shiftlessness,
- silliness,
- skill-lessness,
- sprezzatura,
- stuffiness,
- stupidity,
- superficiality,
- tactlessness,
- thriftlessness,
- triflingness,
- triviality,
- unaccommodatingness,
- unalertness,
- unaptness,
- unawareness,
- uncleverness,
- unconsciousness,
- undeftness,
- undexterousness,
- undextrousness,
- unfitness,
- unfittedness,
- unheedfulness,
- unhelpfulness,
- unintelligence,
- unintentiveness,
- unmindfulness,
- unobligingness,
- unobservance,
- unpreparedness,
- unproficiency,
- unreadiness,
- unreason,
- unreasonableness,
- unschooledness,
- unsensibleness,
- unskillfulness,
- unsolicitousness,
- unsolicitude,
- unsoundness,
- unthinkingness,
- unthoughtfulness,
- untrainedness,
- unwariness,
- unwatchfulness,
- unwisdom,
- unwiseness,
- volatility,
- wackiness,
- weirdness,
- witlessness,
- zaniness,
- zanyism
- negligence
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- failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern related words >
- absentmindedness,
- accidia,
- acedia,
- allowance,
- apathy,
- approximation,
- ataraxia,
- ataraxy,
- bad policy,
- blowziness,
- carelessness,
- casualness,
- chintziness,
- culpa,
- culpable negligence,
- default,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- detachment,
- deviation,
- disconformity,
- disinterest,
- dispassion,
- disregard,
- disregardfulness,
- distraction,
- dowdiness,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- failing,
- failure,
- fecklessness,
- flightiness,
- flippancy,
- forgetfulness,
- frivolousness,
- frowziness,
- frumpishness,
- giddiness,
- grubbiness,
- hastiness,
- heedlessness,
- impolicy,
- impotence,
- imprecision,
- improvidence,
- inaccuracy,
- inaccurateness,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inattention,
- inattentiveness,
- inconsideration,
- incorrectness,
- incuriosity,
- indifference,
- indiscrimination,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- inexcitability,
- inexpedience,
- inexpediency,
- inobservance,
- insouciance,
- laches,
- lack of affect,
- lackadaisicalness,
- laissez-faire,
- lapse,
- lax stewardship,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- leniency,
- levity,
- lightmindedness,
- listlessness,
- looseness,
- loosening,
- maladministration,
- malfeasance,
- malpractice,
- messiness,
- mindlessness,
- misadministration,
- misconduct,
- misdirection,
- misfeasance,
- misgovernment,
- misguidance,
- mishandling,
- mismanagement,
- misrule,
- neglect,
- neglectfulness,
- nonadherence,
- nonchalance,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformance,
- nonconformity,
- nonfeasance,
- nonfulfillment,
- noninterference,
- nonobservance,
- nonperformance,
- nonrestriction,
- obliviousness,
- omission,
- oscitancy,
- overindulgence,
- overlooking,
- overpermissiveness,
- oversight,
- permissiveness,
- pococurantism,
- poor husbandry,
- poor stewardship,
- predictable error,
- probable error,
- procrastination,
- recklessness,
- regardlessness,
- relaxation,
- relaxedness,
- remissness,
- seediness,
- shabbiness,
- shallowness,
- shiftlessness,
- shoddiness,
- slackness,
- slatternliness,
- slight,
- slipshodness,
- sloppiness,
- sloth,
- slovenliness,
- slovenry,
- sluttishness,
- softness,
- sordidness,
- squalidness,
- squalor,
- standard deviation,
- superficiality,
- tackiness,
- tawdriness,
- thoughtlessness,
- thriftlessness,
- tolerance,
- unalertness,
- unanxiousness,
- unawareness,
- unconcern,
- unconsciousness,
- uncorrectness,
- unfactualness,
- unheedfulness,
- unintentiveness,
- unmindfulness,
- unneatness,
- unobservance,
- unpreciseness,
- unrestraint,
- unrigorousness,
- unsolicitousness,
- untidiness,
- unwariness,
- unwatchfulness,
- weakness,
- wrongdoing
- sloth
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- apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
- a disinclination to work or exert yourself related words >
- Chiroptera,
- Lagomorpha,
- Primates,
- Rodentia,
- accidia,
- acedia,
- aloofness,
- anger,
- apathy,
- army,
- ataraxia,
- ataraxy,
- avarice,
- avaritia,
- benumbedness,
- blah,
- blahs,
- boredom,
- bunch,
- carelessness,
- casualness,
- cautiousness,
- cave of Trophonius,
- cave of despair,
- circumspection,
- colony,
- comatoseness,
- creeping,
- deadly sin,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- despair,
- desperateness,
- desperation,
- despondency,
- detachment,
- dilatoriness,
- disconsolateness,
- disinterest,
- dispassion,
- disregard,
- disregardfulness,
- do-nothingness,
- drawl,
- drift,
- drive,
- drove,
- drowsiness,
- dullness,
- easygoingness,
- enervation,
- ennui,
- envy,
- ergophobia,
- faineancy,
- faineantise,
- fatigue,
- flock,
- foot-dragging,
- forlornness,
- gam,
- gang,
- gluttony,
- greed,
- gula,
- heartlessness,
- heaviness,
- hebetude,
- heedlessness,
- herd,
- hoboism,
- hopelessness,
- host,
- idleness,
- idling,
- inanimation,
- inappetence,
- inattention,
- inattentiveness,
- incuriosity,
- indifference,
- indiscrimination,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- inexcitability,
- inexertion,
- insouciance,
- invidia,
- ira,
- jadedness,
- just being,
- kennel,
- lack of affect,
- lack of appetite,
- lackadaisicalness,
- laggardness,
- languidness,
- languishment,
- languor,
- languorousness,
- lassitude,
- laze,
- laziness,
- lazing,
- leisureliness,
- lenitude,
- lentitude,
- lentor,
- lethargicalness,
- lethargy,
- lifelessness,
- listlessness,
- litter,
- loafing,
- lotus-eating,
- lust,
- luxuria,
- mere existence,
- mere tropism,
- mindlessness,
- negligence,
- no exit,
- no way,
- no way out,
- nonchalance,
- numbness,
- oscitancy,
- pack,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- phlegm,
- phlegmaticalness,
- phlegmaticness,
- plucklessness,
- pococurantism,
- pod,
- pokiness,
- pride,
- recklessness,
- regardlessness,
- reluctance,
- remissness,
- resignation,
- resignedness,
- satedness,
- school,
- shiftlessness,
- shoal,
- skulk,
- slackness,
- sleepiness,
- slothfulness,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- sluggardy,
- sluggishness,
- somnolence,
- sopor,
- soporifousness,
- spiritlessness,
- spring fever,
- spunklessness,
- stagnation,
- stupefaction,
- stupor,
- superbia,
- supineness,
- tentativeness,
- torpidity,
- torpidness,
- torpitude,
- torpor,
- trip,
- troop,
- unanxiousness,
- unconcern,
- unmindfulness,
- unsolicitousness,
- vagrancy,
- vegetation,
- weariness,
- withdrawnness,
- world-weariness,
- wrath
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