slowness
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4.3
- noun
- /ˈsloʊnəs/
- Specialized
:
lentitud
- The teacher noticed a student's slowness in grasping new concepts during math lessons.
Examples
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Social disruptions are probably more difficult to deal with than academic slowness in a mainstreamed classroom, especially with children who have behavioral problems.
Academic text (1991) -
In any event, the result was her slowness in communicating.
Fiction book (1994) -
Was his constant motion a way to compensate for, perhaps even to hide, his slowness of speech?
Fiction book (2000) -
My son often complained about a child whose slowness over food meant that the others were kept inside (rather than being allowed to play on the playground) for much of the lunch period.
Academic text (1991) -
Bradykinesia is one of the most incapacitating PD motor symptoms, and it is used to describe the pathological slowness of movement.
Academic text (2016) -
The remaining one-third of the unusual slowness in the growth of real GDP can be explained by the slow pace of growth in the ratio of real GDP to potential GDP—which in CBO's assessment, is attributable to a shortfall in the overall demand for goods and services in the economy.
Blog text (8) -
Her slowness in processing information made it challenging for her to keep up with the class discussions.
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Many people misunderstand intellectual slowness as laziness rather than a genuine difficulty in learning.
Synonyms
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6.3
Being less developed than others in education, money, or social life
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8.1
Being slow to understand or notice things
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3.9
A condition that makes it harder for a person to understand or do things like others their age
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6.2
A state of not understanding things quickly
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7.7
Not able to understand things quickly
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3.8
Slow thinking and trouble understanding new things
A state when someone is slow to understand things
A quality of being slow to understand and making simple mistakes
A condition in which a person has lower than usual thinking ability
Antonyms
How Quick
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Slowness comes from slow + -ness, and slow once simply meant 'not moving quickly' or 'lazy'; imagine a slow turtle to remember it. So when we talk about slowness in intellectual growth, we mean the pace of thinking or learning is slower than usual.