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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SLOWNESS, n.
1. Moderate motion; want of speed or velocity. Swifness and slowness are relative ideas.
2. Tardy advance; moderate progression; as the slowness of an operation; slowness of growth or improvement.
3. Dullness to admit conviction or affection; as slowness of heart.
4. Want of readiness or promptness; dullness of intellect.
5. Deliberation; coolness; caution in deciding.
6. Dilatoriness; tardiness.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness]
2: a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry [syn: slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness]
3: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn: retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality]

Merriam Webster's

noun see slow I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slowness Slow"ness, n. The quality or state of being slow.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see slow

Moby Thesaurus

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