We explain what laziness is, what a lazy person is like and how psychology understands it. Also, why is it a sin in religion.
What is laziness?
Laziness is the lack of motivation or willingness to carry out a certain task. This term is also used to designate laziness, idleness or indolence, when not negligence or boredom.
In general, from a person Lazy woman is expected to stop doing the things she might do because she does not want to exert herself, and therefore to undertake other more entertaining surrogate activities, or else to remain idle. His virtue the opposite is diligence.
Laziness is held in most of the cultures as a vice or a defect, to the point that the doctrine Christian considers it one of the seven deadly sins, by which an individual strays from God's favor. According to the Catholic imagination, laziness and idleness invite the sin, and they move away human being of the fulfillment of duty. In 1589 it was associated with the demon Belphegor.
For example, someone who does things to get out of trouble, unnecessarily, can be called lazy. Those people who do not take their tasks seriously, or who do not give them due importance, or who simply do not want to do anything.
However, as more has become known about the workings of the human mind, the psychology differentiated laziness from sadness, depression, abulia or dysthymia, which refer to emotional or psychiatric conditions of another nature.
Finally, laziness has traditionally been represented with the image of the siesta, of the person asleep or idle, commonly lying down, reclining or sitting, indifferent to the world around him.