leisureness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]leisureness (uncountable)
- (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?