Synonyms for slowness
slow·ness

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1. slowness

   Stupidity is sometimes loosely used for temporary dulness or partial stupor, but chiefly for innate and chronic dulness and sluggishness of mental action, obtuseness of apprehension, etc. Apathy may be temporary, and be dispelled by appeal to the feelings or by the presentation of an adequate motive, but stupidity is inveterate and commonly incurable. Compare APATHY; IDIOCY; STUPOR.

   Synonyms:
   apathy, dulness, insensibility, obtuseness, sluggishness, stupefaction, stupidity, stupor

   Antonyms:
   acuteness, alertness, animation, brilliancy, cleverness, intelligence, keenness, quickness, readiness, sagacity, sense, sensibility

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1. awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slownessnoun

   unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

   Synonyms:
   subnormality, maladroitness, deliberation, unsuitableness, backwardness, unsuitability, cumbersomeness, nuisance value, ineptness, stiffness, retardation, mental retardation, clumsiness, gracelessness, unhurriedness, deliberateness, awkwardness, worthlessness, unwieldiness, ineptitude

2. slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriednessnoun

   a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry

   Synonyms:
   ineptitude, unhurriedness, ineptness, calculation, subnormality, deliberateness, clumsiness, mental retardation, backwardness, weighing, maladroitness, awkwardness, deliberation, advisement, retardation

3. retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormalitynoun

   lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

   Synonyms:
   lag, retardant, deliberation, slowing, backwardness, slowdown, deceleration, deliberateness, ineptness, retardation, mental retardation, clumsiness, unhurriedness, retardent, subnormality, awkwardness, maladroitness, ineptitude

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1. List of paraphrases for "slowness":

   sluggishness, slow, tardiness, slowdown, inertia

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1. Magnus Egerstedt:

   I could not understand how these slow, tasty animals that are just sitting there waiting to be eaten by a jaguar could survive, so I started reading about sloths and I got really excited about embracing slowness in robotics. And when you're measuring things that are evolving over weeks and months, you don't have to be fast -- it's OK to be slow, as long as you're out there and getting the job done.

2. Rachel Dolhun:

   At its core there is a loss of brain cells that make dopamine, and that’s why in Parkinson’s you see symptoms of movement like tremors, slowness, stiffness, and walking and balance problems.

3. Joseph Roux:

   There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

4. Mark Rosekind:

   I'm very concerned like all of you have been with the slowness across all of the recalls.

5. State John Kerry:

   Our estimates are it's somewhere in the vicinity of $50 to $55 billion at some point in time but it's way below that right now. and in fact, they are complaining about the slowness with which there has been a process of repatriation.