Dictionary Definition :
Definition[1]
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idleness : (nt.) ālasiya; ālasya; kosajja.
Source
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A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]
Definition[2]
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懈怠 [py] xièdài [wg] hsieh-tai [ko] 해태 haet'ae [ja] ケダイ kedai ||| (Skt. kauśīdya; Tib. le lo). Laziness, negligence, indolence, idleness. A mental action of not exhausting all of one's energy in the effort of cutting off evil and cultivating goodness. One of the six great defilements as listed in the Abhidharmakośa-bhāsya. One of the twenty secondary defilements suifannao 隨煩惱 in the doctrine of the Yogācāra 瑜伽行派 school.〔成唯識論T 1585.31.33b〕