sluggishness

English

Etymology

From 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

• (antonym(s) of “property of being sluggish”): nimbleness

Translations

the property of being sluggish

Dutch: traag (nl), sloom (nl) Finnish: hitaus (fi), hidasliikkeisyys Greek: Ancient: νωθρεία f (nōthreía) Latin: torpēdō (la) f Ottoman Turkish: تنبللك (tembellik), هایلازلق (haylazlık), كسل (kesel) Persian: تنبلی (fa) sg (tambali) Polish: bezwładność (pl) f Spanish: pachorra (es) Tagalog: kupad Telugu: సోమరితనము (te) (sōmaritanamu) Turkish: uyuşukluk (tr), uyuşuntu, miskinlik (tr)