slowliness

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noun

Slowness.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounslowliness (uncountable)
  1. nonstandardrareuncountableSlowness.

    Digital play might inhibit this slowliness, because, as mentioned earlier, there is not the same responsiveness to the subtleties of the touch interaction.

    2019, Mona Sakr, Digital Play in Early Childhood: What's the Problem?
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    "In all my experience and observation," says Dr. W. O. Krohn, "I have never seen a single case of brain disorderliness, of brain slowliness that was not benefited by physical training."

    1904, Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, volume 20, page 366

    This suggests that many of them are sensitive to the idea, that slowliness is a characteristic cue of grief (making it more sure that grief is felt by the mover), but it is not a necessary cue.

    1991, Marco de Meijer, Emotional Meaning in Large Body Movements, page 199

Origin

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Chicago

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