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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “SLOWNESS”

SLOWNESS n.
The quality or state of being slow.
COERCIVE a.
ive or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly depends on the molecular constitution of the metal. Nich…
CONCURRENT a.
ame time. There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. Tyndall.
DELAY v.
top for a time; to linger; to tarry. There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. Locke.
DILATORINESS n.
The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.
DRAG n.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." Hazlitt.
DULLNESS n.
The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also dulness.] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.
GRADUALNESS n.
The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness. The gradualness of this movement. M. Arnold. The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer. H. Drummond.
HESITANCY n.
The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.
LARGO a.
Slow or slowly; -- more so than adagio; next in slowness to grave, which is also weighty and solemn. -- n.
LENTITUDE n.
Slowness; sluggishness. [Obs.]
LENTOR n.
Slowness; delay; sluggishness. Arbuthnot.
SLOTH n.
Slowness; tardiness. These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. Shak.
TARDIGRADA n.
A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.
TARDITY n.
Slowness; tardiness. [R.] Sir K. Digby.
TEDIOUS a.
Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan.