sluggishness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SLUG'GISHNESS, noun 1. Natural or habitual indolence or laziness; sloth; dullness; applied to persons. 2.Inertness; want of power to move; applied to inanimate matter. 3. Slowness; as the sluggishness of a steam.
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