Meanings
plural sluggishnesses
- uncountableusuallyThe property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
- uncountableusuallyThe 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?
Synonyms & antonyms
antonym(s) of “property of being sluggish”
nouna state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
nouninactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Ancient Greek νωθρεία
- νωθρεία (nōthreía)the property of being sluggish
Dutch traag, sloom
- traagthe property of being sluggish
- sloomthe property of being sluggish
Finnish hitaus, hidasliikkeisyys
- hitausthe property of being sluggish
- hidasliikkeisyysthe property of being sluggish
German Trägheit
- Trägheitthe property of being sluggish
Latin torpēdō
- torpēdōthe property of being sluggish
Persian تنبلی
- تنبلی (tambali)the property of being sluggish
Polish bezwładność
- bezwładnośćthe property of being sluggish
Spanish pachorra
- pachorrathe property of being sluggish
Tagalog kupad
- kupadthe property of being sluggish
Turkish uyuşukluk, uyuşuntu
- uyuşuklukthe property of being sluggish
- uyuşuntuthe property of being sluggish
- miskinlikthe property of being sluggish
Cite this entry
sluggishness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sluggishness
“sluggishness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sluggishness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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