Pronunciations (3)
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/sləʊθ/
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/slɔθ/
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/sloʊθ/
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Noun
Slow economic growth.
Usage- Uncountable
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Slowth lies behind the difficulties each of us faces in achieving the standard of living we desire.
Unfortunately, with slowth it becomes progressively more difficult to escape from the rigours of scarcity
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it is realized that the slowth context is making that activity less than might be considered desirable.
Noun
The state or condition of being slow; slowness.
Usage- Uncountable
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Good old-fashioned slowth is being looked at with new interest, as is exemplified by such old antiques as the old Douglas Skyraider. And, of course the helicopter, slowest of all, so slow you can easily make one go backwards.
The tempo of the introduction, which Mahler has marked to be slow and dragging, is of the utmost "slowth" (if I may use such a word to denote the creepy, crawling atmosphere thus created).
The slowth may have been caused by various software issues rather than anything to do with hardware.