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SLUGGISHNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
Example:
the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends
Synonyms:
flatness; languor; lethargy; phlegm; sluggishness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sluggishness" is a kind of...):
inactiveness; inactivity; inertia (a disposition to remain inactive or inert)
Derivation:
sluggish (slow and apathetic)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The pace of things that move relatively slowly
Example:
the sluggishness of the compass in the Arctic cold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sluggishness" is a kind of...):
pace; rate (the relative speed of progress or change)
Derivation:
sluggish ((of business) not active or brisk)
sluggish (moving slowly)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
Synonyms:
lassitude; lethargy; sluggishness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("sluggishness" is a kind of...):
torpidity; torpor (a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sluggishness"):
hebetude (mental lethargy or dullness)
