noun · neutral
laziness
/ˈleɪzinəs/LAI·zi·ness
the quality of not being willing to work or make an effort
Examples
“Procrastination and laziness can lower academic achievement.”
“Parents often worry that too much screen time encourages laziness.”
“Overcoming laziness requires both habit change and motivation.”
Band 8 sentence
“Educational reforms that focus solely on tests may inadvertently reward memorisation and deepen laziness rather than encouraging critical thinking.”
Collocations
- overcome laziness
- combating laziness
- a sign of laziness
Word family
Common mistakes
Laziness is a bad character.→Laziness is a bad trait.
He has laziness.→He is lazy.
Say it for a higher band
5lazy→6lack of motivation→7+laziness
Synonyms
idleness
sloth
Easily confused
idleness
“Periods of idleness can lead to laziness if people lose motivation to be productive.”
sloth
“His sloth was criticised in essays as a moral failing, while teachers preferred to call it laziness.”
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