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lagginess

lagginess noun: the quality of being laggy.

Noun

lagginess (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being laggy.
    • Dame Spring comes late nowadays. The use of frames is the only way to defeat her exasperating lagginess. They turn garden uncertainties into certainties.1917 February, House & Garden, page 74
    • As winter comes on the windows are closed, the demand for fresh stirring air has become such a necessity that the effects of breathing and rebreathing an atmosphere heavily charged with C o2 make all the symptoms of restlessness, sleeplesness,^([sic]) lagginess, dark brown taste in the morning and...1917 April, Joseph A. Maclay, “Sleep and Proper and Improper Methods of Sleeping in Relation to Health and Disease”, in The Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, volume XIV, pages 144–145...

Examples of lagginess in a sentence

  • Of course the birds should be watched every day as they come off the roost to see that there is none that has a suspicious paleness or redness or lagginess or a suspicious thirst.1923 December, Everybody’s Poultry Magazine, page 979:
  • There have been some complaints of lagginess with regards to controllers/video with the system (some users claim this is an issue with the TV sets themselves) but generally the emulation is decent.2018 July–September, Paleotronic, volume 1, number 3, page 107:
  • But, yes, lagginess can happen, especially in cold weather.2021 February 28, Scott Sturgis, “The 2021 Volvo V90 is so close to perfect”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 94, number 220, page F-4:

Forms of lagginess

alternative formlaggyness

Origin of lagginess

From laggy + -ness.

Questions about lagginess

What does lagginess mean?
Lagginess means the quality of being laggy.
How do you use lagginess in a sentence?
Of course the birds should be watched every day as they come off the roost to see that there is none that has a suspicious paleness or redness or lagginess or a suspicious thirst.
What part of speech is lagginess?
Lagginess is a noun.

Words near lagginess in the dictionary

  1. lagged off
  2. lagger
  3. laggers
  4. laggier
  5. laggiest
  6. lagginess
  7. lagging
  8. lagging behind
  9. lagging jacket
  10. lagging jackets
  11. lagging off

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