Sluggishness

Origin

sluggish + -ness

Full definition of sluggishness

Noun

1. The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
2. The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
• 2012, Javier Solana, Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty?:
• And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.