Sloth vs Anteater - What's the difference?
sloth | anteater |
(uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
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(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.
Any of several animals, in suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues.
A common term used of some other unrelated species that feed with ants, including pangolin (scaly anteater), echidna (spiny anteater), aardvark and numbat (banded anteater).
As nouns the difference between sloth and anteater
is that sloth is (uncountable) laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour while anteater is any of several animals, in suborder vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues.As a verb sloth
is (obsolete|intransitive) to be idle.sloth
English
(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.