Idleness vs Sloth - What's the difference?
idleness | sloth |
The state of being idle; inactivity.
The state of being indolent; indolence
Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality.
(uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
* Milton
* Franklin
(countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.
Sloth is a synonym of idleness.
As nouns the difference between idleness and sloth
is that idleness is the state of being idle; inactivity while sloth is laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.As a verb sloth is
to be idle.idleness
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(wikipedia sloth)Alternative forms
* sloath, slowth (obsolete)Noun
- [They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth .
- Sloth , like rust, consumes faster than labour wears.