slowness

English

Etymology

slow +‎ -ness

Noun

slowness (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being slow.
2. (physics) A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.

Translations

quality of being slow

• Catalan: lentitud (ca) f
• Czech: pomalost (cs) f
• Dutch: langzaamheid (nl), traagheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: malrapideco (eo)
• Finnish: hitaus (fi)
• French: lenteur (fr) f
• German: Langsamkeit (de) f, Trägheit (de) f
• Greek: βραδύτητα (el) n (vradýtita)
• Hungarian: lassúság (hu)
• Indonesian: kelambatan (id)

• Italian: lentezza (it) f
• Latin: lentitudo (la) f
• Latvian: lēnums (lv) m
• Norwegian: langsomhet (no)
• Polish: powolność (pl) f
• Portuguese: lentidão (pt) m
• Romanian: lentoare (ro)
• Slovak: pomalosť (sk) n
• Spanish: lentitud (es) f
• Swedish: långsamhet (sv)

References

• slowness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• slowness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• snowless