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leisureness en · NOUN

Etymology

From leisure + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (dated, uncountable) The quality of being leisurely.
    • How else explain the seeming slowness with which we were falling — the seeming leisureness with which the wall drifted up past us? 2018, Abraham Merritt, The Collected SF & Fantasy Works:
    • But pale Malts will be fit for Use at a Week's End, because the Leisureness of their Drying endows them with a Softness from the Time they are taken off the Kiln to the Time they are brewed […] 1759, The London and Country Brewer, 7th edition:

Synonyms

leisureliness · leisure