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Sluggishness

noun

A state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness). Synonyms: lassitude, lethargy.

The pace of things that move relatively slowly. "The sluggishness of the compass in the Arctic cold"

Inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy. Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, phlegm.

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"Sluggishness" Quotes from Famous Books

... which Austria took more interest, also languished owing to the sluggishness of the Duke of Brunswick. This, in its turn, resulted from political reasons. Frederick William, in spite of his treaty obligations to England, refused to move forward until she guaranteed his late gains in Poland and made further advances of money. Then, too, he felt no interest in Austria's ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... entirely any neutralizing or less objectionable feature. His form—to conclude the picture—is constructed with singular power; and though not symmetrical, is far from ungainly. When impelled by some stirring motive, his carriage is easy, without seeming effort, and his huge frame throws aside the sluggishness which at other times invests it, putting on a habit of animated exercise, which changes the entire appearance of ...

— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms

... hold that this tendency, this natural sluggishness in laying hold of the things of the higher nature is not in itself guilt, it becomes so by the voluntary adoption of the lower forces as the guide of life. Nature has her own decalogue. There is a law written upon our hearts. The wasting of power by anger, jealousy, envy, covetousness ...

— The Things Which Remain - An Address To Young Ministers • Daniel A. Goodsell

... old age is well understood—general sluggishness of all the functions, stiffness of the joints, more or less so-called rheumatism, loss of strength, wasting tissues, broken sleep, failing hearing and eyesight, capricious appetite, and so on. But the psychology of old age is not so easily described. The old man reasons well, the judgment is ...

— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs

... Mr. Korner's sluggishness of comprehension irritated Miss Greene. She leaned across the table and shook him. "Don't you understand? You have done it on purpose to teach her a lesson. It is she who has got to ask you to ...

— Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies • Jerome K. Jerome

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