sluggishness

an inert mass of soil); applied to persons, it implies lethargy or sluggishness,especially of mind or spirit:

The sluggishness of the economy is a cause for concern.

I can't seem to shake off this feeling of sluggishness.

His sluggishness in completing the project led to delays.

A lack of exercise can contribute to feelings of sluggishness.

The medication may cause drowsiness and sluggishness.

The heat wave resulted in a general feeling of sluggishness among the population.

The team's sluggishness in the first half cost them the game.

She tried to overcome her sluggishness by drinking coffee.

The illness left him with a lingering sense of sluggishness.

The company's sluggishness in adapting to new technology is hindering its growth.

The fact that he had never changed suggested a sluggishness of habit which seemed to me characteristic.

Globalisation has given way to a new era of sluggishness.

Yet every chapter in its progress was slow, bound on either side by centuries of sluggishness.

It's nothing but mere idleness, sluggishness, want of thinking.

Hepzibah gazed forth from her habitual sluggishness, the necessary result of long solitude, as from another sphere.

Google's earlier efforts in this area were derailed in part by hospitals' sluggishness in digitising their patient information.

Le Chiffre desisted only when Bond's tortured spasms showed a trace of sluggishness.

That, combined with sluggishness from overeating (and drinking, if that's your style) can put a real drag on a person's wellbeing.

This sluggishness on Colonel Pyncheon's part became still more unaccountable, when the second dignitary of the province made his appearance, and found no more ceremonious a reception.

In the face of weakening external demand and sluggishness in the global economy, China needs to fully tap the potential of its domestic consumption to shore up its economic growth this year, he added.