slowness

English

Etymology

From slow +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

slowness (usually uncountable, plural slownesses)

1. The quality or state of being slow.
   • 2003 April 30, Hazel Muir, “Einstein and Newton showed signs of autism”, in New Scientist, retrieved 15 Nov. 2012:

     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.

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

Translations

quality of being slow

• Catalan: lentitud (ca) f
• Czech: pomalost (cs) f
• Danish: langsomhed c
• Dutch: langzaamheid, traagheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: malrapideco
• Finnish: hitaus (fi)
• French: lenteur (fr) f
• Friulian: lentece f
• German: Langsamkeit (de) f, Trägheit (de) f
• Greek: βραδύτητα (el) n (vradýtita)

  Ancient: βραδυτής f (bradutḗs)

• Hebrew: איטיות (he) f (itiyút)
• Hungarian: lassúság (hu)
• Indonesian: kelambatan (id)
• Irish: leadrán m
• Italian: lentezza (it) f
• Japanese: 遅さ (ososa), 遅慢 (ja) (chiman), 緩慢 (ja) (kanman)
• Latin: lentitudo f, tarditās f, sēgnitia f
• Latvian: lēnums m
• Norwegian: langsomhet
• Old English: lætnes f
• Polish: powolność (pl) f
• Portuguese: lentidão (pt) f
• Romanian: lentoare (ro)
• Russian: медли́тельность (ru) f (medlítelʹnostʹ)
• Slovak: pomalosť n
• Spanish: lentitud (es) f
• Swedish: långsamhet (sv)
• Telugu: మెల్లన (te) (mellana)
• Ukrainian: пові́льність f (povílʹnistʹ)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “slowness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “slowness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• snowless