SLUGGISHNESS

• (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

  "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"

  synonyms : flatness , languor , lethargy , phlegm

• (noun) the pace of things that move relatively slowly

  "the sluggishness of the economy", "the sluggishness of the compass in the Arctic cold"

• (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)

  synonyms : lassitude , lethargy

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