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Noun: slowness  slow-nus
  1. Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
    - awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, cack-handedness [Brit, informal]
     
  2. A rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
    - deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness
     
  3. Lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
    - retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, subnormality

Type of: daftness [informal], pace, rate, stupidity, unskilfulness [Brit, Cdn], unskillfulness [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Slowness