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sluggishness

noun

Etymology

From sluggish + -ness.

  1. inherited from slugge — “lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”
  2. suffixed as sluggish — “slug + ish”
  3. suffixed as sluggishness — “sluggish + ness”

Definitions

  1. The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.

  2. The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

  • antonymnimblenessantonym(s) of “property of being sluggish”

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sluggishness. 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