leisureness

English

Etymology

leisure +‎ -ness

Noun

leisureness (uncountable)

  1. (dated) The quality of being leisurely.
    • 1759, The London and Country Brewer, 7th edition:
      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 […]
    • 2018, Abraham Merritt, The Collected SF & Fantasy Works:
      How else explain the seeming slowness with which we were falling — the seeming leisureness with which the wall drifted up past us?

Synonyms
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.