I have a class with a property that's a Dictionary:

public class Entity 
{
    public Dictionary<string, string> Name { get; set; }
}

I would like switch this property to use lazy initializtion. I tried the following:

public class Entity 
{
    private Lazy<Dictionary<string, string>> name = new Lazy<Dictionary<string, string>>(() => new Dictionary<string, string>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
    public Dictionary<string, string> Name
    {
        get => name;
        set => name = value;
    }
}

This is of course an error, as Name and name have different types. For the life of me though, I can't figure out how to specify this correctly. All I really want is to have Name remain null until I access it, then create it on the first read or write.

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