SLUGGISHNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

Example:

the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends

Synonyms:

flatness; languor; lethargy; phlegm; sluggishness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("sluggishness" is a kind of...):

inactiveness; inactivity; inertia (a disposition to remain inactive or inert)

Derivation:

sluggish (slow and apathetic)

Meaning:

The pace of things that move relatively slowly

Example:

the sluggishness of the compass in the Arctic cold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("sluggishness" is a kind of...):

pace; rate (the relative speed of progress or change)

Derivation:

sluggish ((of business) not active or brisk)

sluggish (moving slowly)

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

lassitude; lethargy; sluggishness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("sluggishness" is a kind of...):

torpidity; torpor (a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sluggishness"):

hebetude (mental lethargy or dullness)