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Noun sloth has 3 senses
- sloth, slothfulness - a disinclination to work or exert yourself
--1 is a kind of reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition
- sloth, tree sloth - any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
--2 is a kind of edentate
--2 is a member of Bradypodidae, family Bradypodidae
--2 has particulars:
- sloth, laziness, acedia - apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
--3 is a kind of mortal sin, deadly sin
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