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Supineness
SUPI'NENESS
,Noun.
1.
Indolence; drowsiness; heedlessness. Many of the evils of life are owing to our own supineness.Definition 2024
supineness
supineness
English
Noun
supineness (usually uncountable, plural supinenesses)
- the state of being supine
- 1897, Henry James, The Spoils of Poynton:
- She almost taunted Fleda with supineness in not getting something out of somebody—in the same breath indeed in which she drenched her with a kind of appreciation more onerous to the girl than blame.
- 1897, Henry James, The Spoils of Poynton: