Noun: slowness slow-nus
- A rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
"The slowness of his approach calmed the nervous animal";
- deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness
- Clumsiness or lack of skill, especially due to insufficient training
"Her slowness in social situations was painfully obvious";
- awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, cack-handedness [Brit, informal]
- Lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
"The school provided special programs for students with mental slowness";
- retardation [archaic], mental retardation [archaic], backwardness [archaic], subnormality [archaic]
Type of: daftness [informal], feeblemindedness, pace, rate, stupidity, unskilfulness [Brit, Cdn], unskillfulness [N. Amer]
Encyclopedia: Slowness