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sluggishness

sluggishness noun: the property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.

Noun

sluggishness (usually uncountable, plural sluggishnesses)

  1. (usually) The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
  2. (usually) The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
    • And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.2012, Javier Solana, Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty?

sluggishness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada

sluggishness in Tamil

sluggishness, doltishness
மக்கு makku

sluggishness in Urdu

آلکسی, کاہلی, سہل انگاری

sluggishness in Telugu

the property of being sluggish
సోమరితనము sōmaritanamu

sluggishness in Kannada

ಸೋಮಾರಿತನ, ಜಡತೆ, ಛಾನಸ
More languagesFewer languages
sluggishness in Tagalog
kupad
sluggishness in Persian
تنبلی tambali

Antonyms of sluggishness

Forms of sluggishness

pluralsluggishnesses

Origin of sluggishness

From sluggish + -ness.

Questions about sluggishness

What does sluggishness mean?
Sluggishness means the property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
What is sluggishness in Tamil?
Sluggishness in Tamil is மக்கு (makku). See Sluggishness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sluggishness?
Sluggishness is a noun.
What is the plural of sluggishness?
The plural of sluggishness is sluggishnesses.

Words near sluggishness in the dictionary

  1. sluggish cognitive tempo
  2. sluggish schizophrenia
  3. sluggisher
  4. sluggishest
  5. sluggishly
  6. sluggishness
  7. sluggishnesses
  8. sluggos
  9. sluggy
  10. slughorn
  11. slughorne

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sluggishness (page history and authors); மக்கு (Tamil) (page history and authors); sluggishness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sluggishness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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