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slowness
noun as in dullness
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At times it can seem too proud of its virtuous noncommerciality; its slowness can seem shallow, its artiness willful.
Her death is faked by means of a drug that slows her heart to near-death slowness.
“The key to the show, to building towards the big lines, is in the pauses, the slowness,” she says.
Teased for their slowness, many become depressed and angry and act out.
In her hands, celluloid comes off as a medium that allows for old-fashioned rumination, with some of the slowness of oil paint.
He sang the words with an odd, emphatic slowness, turning to look at Lettice between the phrases.
Saw-dust has little value as a manure, as it undergoes decomposition with extreme slowness.
Maud Barrington laughed a little, for his face was visible and she understood the slowness of his answer.
I paced the deck for hours, and grew morose and nervous, chafing under the slowness of the stout craft.
Her energy was in the slowness; but for inimitable strength, I felt she would have run, she would have flown to me.
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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slowness, such as: sluggishness, unwillingness, apathy, indifference, lethargy, and listlessness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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