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slowness

 
Noun slowness has 3 senses
  1. awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness - unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
    --1 is a kind of unskillfulness
  2. slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness - a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
    --2 is a kind of pace, rate
    --2 has particulars: leisureliness; dilatoriness, procrastination
  3. retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality - lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
    --3 is a kind of stupidity
    --3 has particulars:
     abnormality, mental defectiveness; moronity, mental deficiency; idiocy, amentia; imbecility; mongolism, mongolianism, Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, trisomy 21
slowed slower slowest-growing slowest slowgoing slowing slowlier slowly slowness slownik slowpoke slows slowworm sloyan sloyd sls slub

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