as in thickness
the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind
her natural shyness was sometimes mistaken for slowness by people who did not know her well
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Recent Examples of slowness
Bear had eliminated the weight and slowness of the English bow and the structural defects of the Turkish design.
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Clare Conley, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2025
What looks like slowness on land becomes strength in the water, where the hippo’s true speed and power surface.
—Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
There is a growing appetite for slowness, intimacy, authenticity.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
The failure that followed—marked by FEMA's slowness and disorganization—laid bare systemic neglect and inequities, the scars of which still run deep in Louisiana, Mississippi, and beyond.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Bake and Wait Baking requires waiting and slowness, so adding some baking into your days with your kids is a good way to practice slow parenting, Davis says.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 26 Aug. 2025
Duan’s team avoided the slowness of the Bellman-Ford algorithm by running it for just a few steps at a time.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
Clare Conley, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2025
What looks like slowness on land becomes strength in the water, where the hippo’s true speed and power surface.
—Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
There is a growing appetite for slowness, intimacy, authenticity.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
The failure that followed—marked by FEMA's slowness and disorganization—laid bare systemic neglect and inequities, the scars of which still run deep in Louisiana, Mississippi, and beyond.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Bake and Wait Baking requires waiting and slowness, so adding some baking into your days with your kids is a good way to practice slow parenting, Davis says.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 26 Aug. 2025
Duan’s team avoided the slowness of the Bellman-Ford algorithm by running it for just a few steps at a time.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slowness
Noun
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The patch was created by combining nanophotonics technology, which manipulates light at the nanometer scale (one-hundred-thousandth the thickness of a human hair) to read molecular properties, with microfluidics technology, which precisely controls sweat in channels thinner than a hair.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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This is the official thickness.—
Eric Zeman,
PC Magazine,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Carbon steel is sharper but needs more constant care to avoid rusting or edge dullness.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Only his near contemporary, the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (who survived into old age), who weirdly enough also was a lawyer for an insurance company, rivals Kafka in terms of the inverse proportion of literary originality and canonical significance to dullness of life story.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Compare that to punk rock, which used dumbness as a tactic.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Heck, maybe its sheer stupidity.—
Pete Sweeney,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2025
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Trying to move in earlier to accommodate a pittance of an audience is mind boggling stupidity.—
Pol Ballus,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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From startup gatherings to private dinners, the density of conversations reminded me why this ecosystem has been the epicenter of innovation for over 60 years.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Lower density means less energy stored per kilogram of battery weight, forcing heavier packs for longer range, a self-defeating cycle for efficient transport.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This means that all of the orders a seller receives can now benefit from the speed, reliability, and simplicity of Amazon's fulfillment—with MCF fulfilling millions more orders quickly and reliably year-over-year.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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Categories that don’t deliver on validation, simplicity and palatability often struggle to scale.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Yet for all of his stoned foolishness, Bob has clearly imparted a real distrust of authority to his kid.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
18 Sep. 2025
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Not so much by her response as by my own foolishness.—
Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Johnson had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, the outlets reported.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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The gunman was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent decades at a mental hospital before he was released in 2016 and freed from court restrictions in 2022.—
Chris Boyette,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Slowness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slowness. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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