sluggishness

Other forms of sluggishness

plural

sluggishnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sluggishness

What does sluggishness mean?

sluggishness means "a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sluggishness?

sluggishness has 3 syllables: slug-gish-ness. The stress falls on "slug". In IPA it is /ˈslʌɡɪʃnəs/.

What is another word for sluggishness?

Close synonyms include lethargy, lassitude, languor, lethargy, phlegm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sluggishness a common word?

sluggishness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.