Word Meanings - SLOWNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being slow.

HESITATION
1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
SHYNESS
The quality or state of being shy. Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. Baxter. Syn. -- Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See Bashfulness.
REPUGNANCE; REPUGNANCY
The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like. That which causes us to lose most of
SLOWNESS
The quality or state of being slow.
BACKWARDNESS
The state of being backward.
RELUCTANCE; RELUCTANCY
The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against. "Tempering the severity of his looks with a reluctance to the action."