Lexic.us

Definition of Sluggishness

1. Noun. A state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness).

2. Noun. The pace of things that move relatively slowly. "The sluggishness of the compass in the Arctic cold"

3. Noun. Inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy. "The general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"

Definition of Sluggishness

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

2. Noun. The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sluggishness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluggishness

sluggards sluggardy slugged slugger sluggers slugginess slugging slugging average slugging percentage slugging percentages

sluggish sluggish layer sluggisher sluggishest sluggishly sluggishness (current term) sluggishnesses sluggy slughorn slughorns

sluglike slugs slugworm slugworms sluice sluice down sluice valve sluiced sluicegate sluicelike

Literary usage of Sluggishness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"The activity at Constantinople and the sluggishness at ... hut this sluggishness or indifference to life is felt, we shall soon show, in a tolerably ..."

2. Explosives: A Synoptic and Critical Treatment of the Literature of the by Heinrich Brunswig (1912)
"Such a sluggishness of detonation is especially characteristic of a mixture of methane and air. According to the experiments of E. Mallard and H. le ..."

3. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"sluggishness of industrial development. — At the time when England was building up her system of manufacture, when every decade was marked by some important ..."

4. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"sluggishness of industrial development. — At the time when England was building up her system of manufactures, when every decade was marked by some ..."

5. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1914)
"sluggishness of industrial development. — At the time when England was building up her system of manufactures, when every decade was marked by some ..."

6. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1914)
"sluggishness of industrial development. — At the time when England was building up her system of manufactures, when every decade was marked by some ..."

7. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"sluggishness of industrial development. — At the time when England was building up her system of manufactures, when every decade ..."

8. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River by George Back (1836)
"sluggishness of the Compass. — Esquimaux — Portrait of a Female. — Victoria Headland. ... sluggishness ..."

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