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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How to use slowness in a sentence?

1. Joseph Roux:

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

2. Huseyin Yayman:

   I think there will be a positive statement in the spring but the government is moving slowly. This slowness has annoyed people, the government is behaving like this both because an election is coming and it fears Turkey's division.

3. Ryan Pack:

   The slowness of time will either benefit you or harm you.

4. Mark Rosekind:

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

5. Rachel Dolhun:

   Exercise can really help the motor-symptoms of Parkinson’s including the tremors, the stiffness, the slowness, the walking, and the balance problems, exercise can also help the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s, so the mood problems including depression or anxiety, and also the sleep changes.