'Shiftlessness' definitions:
Definition of 'shiftlessness'
(from WordNet)
noun
A failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition
Definition of 'Shiftlessness'
From: GCIDE
- Shiftless \Shift"less\, a. Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management. -- {Shift"less*ly}, adv. -- {Shift"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'shiftlessness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- dilatoriness,
- do-nothingness,
- ergophobia,
- faineancy,
- faineantise,
- fecklessness,
- hastiness,
- heedlessness,
- hoboism,
- improvidence,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inexertion,
- laggardness,
- lax stewardship,
- laziness,
- lotus-eating,
- negligence,
- poor husbandry,
- remissness,
- sloth,
- slothfulness,
- slowness,
- spring fever,
- thoughtlessness,
- thriftlessness,
- vagrancy