Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun slowness

3 senses of slowness

Sense 1
awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness -- (unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training)
       => unskillfulness -- (a lack of cognitive skill)

Sense 2
slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness -- (a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry)
       => pace, rate -- (the relative speed of progress or change; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated")

Sense 3
retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality -- (lack of normal development of intellectual capacities)
       => stupidity -- (a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience)