slowness

Plural: slownesses

Noun

• The quality or state of being slow.
• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
• a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
• lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
• The quality or state of being slow.
• A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.

Examples

• The slowness of his turns in Scrabble frustrated his impatient opponent.

Synonyms

awkwardness, backwardness, clumsiness, deliberateness, deliberation, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, mental retardation, retardation, subnormality, unhurriedness