slowness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry

   Your slowness annoys me.

2. 2
   noun

   lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

   The student exhibited signs of slowness.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

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

Common collocations

• painful slowness Adjective + noun

From slow + -ness.

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