"sluggishness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sluggishnesses [plural]
Etymology: sluggish + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sluggish|ness}} sluggish + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} sluggishness (usually uncountable, plural sluggishnesses)
  1. The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (the property of being sluggish): νωθρεία (nōthreía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), traag (Dutch), sloom (Dutch), hitaus (Finnish), hidasliikkeisyys (Finnish), torpēdō [feminine] (Latin), bezwładność [feminine] (Polish), pachorra (Spanish), kupad (Tagalog), సోమరితనము (sōmaritanamu) (Telugu), uyuşukluk (Turkish), uyuşuntu (Turkish), miskinlik (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-sluggishness-en-noun-ivsdfvLb Disambiguation of 'the property of being sluggish': 96 4
  2. The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-sluggishness-en-noun-6J1B-xuc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 64 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 26 74

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "the property of being sluggish",
      "word": "traag"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the property of being sluggish",
      "word": "sloom"
    },
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      "sense": "the property of being sluggish",
      "word": "hitaus"
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      "sense": "the property of being sluggish",
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    },
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      "sense": "the property of being sluggish",
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      "sense": "the property of being sluggish",
      "word": "pachorra"
    },
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      "sense": "the property of being sluggish",
      "word": "kupad"
    },
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      "sense": "the property of being sluggish",
      "word": "సోమరితనము"
    },
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      "sense": "the property of being sluggish",
      "word": "uyuşukluk"
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      "word": "uyuşuntu"
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