slowness

English

Etymology

slow +‎ -ness

Noun

slowness ‎(usually uncountable, plural slownesses)

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 f
• Czech: pomalost f
• Dutch: langzaamheid, traagheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: malrapideco
• Finnish: hitaus (fi)
• French: lenteur (fr) f
• Friulian: lentece f
• German: Langsamkeit (de) f, Trägheit (de) f
• Greek: βραδύτητα (el) n ‎(vradýtita)
• Hebrew: איטיות f ‎(itiyút)
• Hungarian: lassúság (hu)
• Indonesian: kelambatan (id)

• Irish: leadrán m
• Italian: lentezza (it) f
• Latin: lentitudo f
• Latvian: lēnums m
• Norwegian: langsomhet
• Polish: powolność f
• Portuguese: lentidão (pt) f
• Romanian: lentoare (ro)
• Russian: медли́тельность (ru) f ‎(medlítelʹnostʹ)
• Slovak: pomalosť n
• Spanish: lentitud (es) f
• Swedish: långsamhet

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