supinity

Noun

1. The quality of being supine; negligence; laziness; heedlessness.
   • The Supinity of elder dayes hath left so much in silence, or time hath so martyred the Records, that the most industrious heads do finde no easie work to erect a new Britannia. - 1658, Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn...
   • 1769, Pierre Henri Treyssac de Vergy, The Mistakes of the Heart: or Memoirs of Lady Carolina Pelham and Lady Victoria Nevil, London: J. Murdoch, Volume 3, Letter 5, p. 41, It was a mistake of my heart, a deceit of my...
   • If the government bestows credit upon big financial institutions and then borrows it back it is certainly a manifestation of governmental supinity. - 1922, Sterling P. King, chapter 9, in The Railways and the People,...