0 the quality or fact of being sluggish (= moving or operating more slowly than usual and with less energy):
Continued sluggishness in the global economy meant the growth of IT investment slowed down significantly.
Nuts, chicken, and fish all provide long-lasting energy to overcome winter sluggishness.
She said the company's recent sluggishness has been because of events beyond its control.
Lagged employment enters to capture sluggishness on the part of firms in adjusting employment.
This results in a relative "sluggishness" of the field and thus of infants' abilities to reach a threshold activation sufficient to generate a reach.
The sluggishness of two-way radio communication over interstellar distances tends to make such contact unsatisfactory for beings with lifetimes measured in decades.
To show the sluggishness of the transition layer motion, we might directly estimate dx\dt.
Thus, exogenous nominal stickiness in the form of staggered price setting translates directly into the sluggishness in the movement of this former part of the marginal cost.
