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slogginess (uncountable)

  1. The property or state of being sloggy; A failure to flow or operate freely and smoothly.
    • 1960, The Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India):
      Lack of proper drainage facilities on downstream side, resulting in bulging and general slogginess along the toe.
    • 2000, New York - Volume 33, page 45:
      The actor's uncompromising work stands in stark contrast to the rest of the film, which has a liberal-humanist slogginess.
    • 2014, David B. Hayze, Black Side of the Green Line: Halcyon Siege, →ISBN:
      He shook off the remaining slogginess of the deep sleep he was in and realized that the nightmare he stared at in the smartphone's screen was indeed real and not just another freaky dream segment.