segnity

English

Etymology

From Latin segnitas, from segnis (“slow, sluggish”).

Noun

segnity (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity.
   • 1819, Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh, The works of the British poets: with lives of the authors, volume 11, page 46:

     The ancient laws of the drama were founded upon the presumed segnity of the human mind; upon a supposition, that the fancy is a calculator of probabilities.

Synonyms

• segnitude

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “segnity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Tingeys