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slowness

noun

Etymology

From slow + -ness.

  1. derived from *(s)leyH-✻
  2. inherited from *slaiwaz✻ — “blunt; dull; exhausted, faint, sluggish, weak, weary; listless, torpid; dim-witted, slow; lazy, slack”
  3. inherited from *slaiw✻
  4. inherited from slāw — “lazy; inert, slow”
  5. inherited from slaw
  6. formed as slowness — “slow + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being slow.

    • Impatience with the intellectual slowness of others, narcissism and passion for one's mission in life might combine to make such individuals isolative and difficult.

  2. A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an…

    A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slowness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA