sluggishness

English

Etymology

sluggish +‎ -ness

Noun

sluggishness (usually uncountable, plural sluggishnesses)

1. The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
2. The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
   • 2012, Javier Solana, Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty?:
     • And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.

Antonyms

• (property of being sluggish): nimbleness

Translations

the property of being sluggish

• Dutch: traag (nl), sloom (nl)
• Greek:

  Ancient: νωθρεία f (nōthreía)

• Latin: torpēdō f
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• Spanish: pachorra (es)
• Telugu: సోమరితనము (te) (sōmaritanamu)
• Turkish: uyuşukluk (tr), uyuşuntu, miskinlik (tr)