Synonyms for sluggishness
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1. sluggishness

   Apathy, according to its Greek derivation, is a simple absence of feeling or emotion. There are persons to whom a certain degree of apathy is natural, an innate sluggishness of the emotional nature. In the apathy of despair, a person gives up, without resistance or sensibility, to what he has fiercely struggled to avoid. While apathy is want of feeling, calmness is feeling without agitation. Calmness is the result of strength, courage, or trust; apathy is the result of dulness or weakness. Composure is freedom from agitation or disturbance, resulting ordinarily from force of will, or from perfect confidence in one's own resources. Impassibility is a philosophical term applied to the Deity, as infinitely exalted above all stir of passion or emotion. Unfeelingness, the Saxon word that should be the exact equivalent of apathy, really means more, a lack of the feeling one ought to have, a censurable hardness of heart. Indifference and insensibility designate the absence of feeling toward certain persons or things; apathy, entire absence of feeling. Indifference is a want of interest; insensibility is a want of feeling; unconcern has reference to consequences. We speak of insensibility of heart, immobility of countenance. Stoicism is an intentional suppression of feeling and deadening of sensibilities, while apathy is involuntary. Compare CALM; REST; STUPOR.

   Synonyms:
   apathy, calmness, composure, immobility, impassibility, indifference, insensibility, lethargy, phlegm, quietness, quietude, stillness, stoicism, tranquillity, unconcern, unfeelingness

   Antonyms:
   agitation, alarm, anxiety, care, distress, disturbance, eagerness, emotion, excitement, feeling, frenzy, fury, passion, sensibility, sensitiveness, storm, susceptibility, sympathy, turbulence, vehemence, violence

   Preposition:
   The apathy of monastic life; apathy toward good.

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1. lethargy, lassitude, sluggishnessnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   phlegm, lassitude, listlessness, slackness, flatness, lethargy, languor, inanition

2. sluggishnessnoun

   the pace of things that move relatively slowly

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

   Synonyms:
   flatness, lassitude, languor, phlegm, lethargy

3. languor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatnessnoun

   inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

   "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"

   Synonyms:
   lusterlessness, matt, sputum, dreaminess, inanition, flatness, emotionlessness, lustrelessness, lethargy, languor, slackness, unemotionality, listlessness, impassiveness, phlegm, impassivity, lassitude, indifference, two-dimensionality, matte, stolidity, mat, planeness

Matched Categories

1. • Pace
   • Torpor

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1. sluggishnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   phlegm, apathy, insensibility, dulness, indifference, inertness, indolence, slothfulness, laziness, supineness, torpor, sloth

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1. List of paraphrases for "sluggishness":

   slowness, torpor, slowdown, stagnation, inertia, tardiness, downturn

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1. Ian Nakamoto:

   People are also concerned about debt levels of the consumer, concerned about housing, concerned about the general sluggishness of the Canadian economy.

2. Millan Mulraine:

   The disappointing manufacturing output points to continued sluggishness in this segment of the economy and will likely remain a source of concern at the Fed.

3. Farrell Allen:

   Waking up in the morning in my youth, my mother would sometimes notice my sluggishness and say,' OK, 10 jumping jacks to wake Stephanie Mansour up,'.

4. Millan Mulraine:

   The general tone of this report was weak and it adds to a wide array of housing indicators that have been pointing in the wrong direction, underscoring continued sluggishness in this crucial segment of the economy.

5. Mike Mayo:

   This is the sort of environment that Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan live for: sluggishness in the environment, competitors feeling pain.