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Type Words
Synonyms awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness
Type of unskillfulness
Has types rustiness
Derivation slow
Type Words
Synonyms deliberateness, deliberation, unhurriedness
Type of pace, rate
Has types leisureliness, dilatoriness, procrastination
Derivation slow
Type Words
Synonyms backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, subnormality
Type of stupidity
Has types moronity, abnormality, amentia, idiocy, imbecility, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency
Derivation slow

Examples of slowness

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There's the slowness of the undoing, which he must have mentioned a dozen times.
From the guardian.co.uk
The slowness of lift-off contrasts incredibly with the acceleration into flight.
From the time.com
Its three main symptoms are tremor, muscular rigidity, and slowness of movement.
From the sciencedaily.com
However creation of a long but poor new page is affected much less by slowness.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In it, a tragedy results from the slowness of interstellar travel by this method.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Windows Me was heavily criticized due to slowness, freezes and hardware problems.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The light-rail system has been notorious for its slowness since it opened in 1984.
From the post-gazette.com
Early symptoms of the disease include shaking, rigidity, and slowness of movement.
From the sciencedaily.com
The slowness with which ocean water circulates is central to the new findings.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • Awkwardness: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
  • A rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
  • Retardation: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
  • In kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of its velocity (the rate of change of its position); it is thus a scalar quantity. ...
  • Slowness is the seventh studio album by Hong Kong Cantopop recording-artist Kay Tse. It was released on December 21, 2009 by Cinepoly Records. ...
  • Slowness (La Lenteur), published in 1995 in France, is a novel written in French by Milan Kundera. In the book, Kundera manages to weave together a number of plot lines, characters and themes in just over 150 pages. ...
  • Slowness (s) is a quantity introduced in Seismology which is the reciprocal of velocity. Thus travel time of a wave is nothing but the distance that the wave travels times the slowness of the medium (in seismology, it refers to different layers of Earth exhibiting different densities)nThus,
  • 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