Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SLUG'GISH-NESS
SLUG'GISH-NESS, n.
- Natural or habitual indolence or laziness; sloth; dullness; applied to persons.
- Inertness; want of power to move; applied to inanimate matter.
- Slowness; as, the sluggishness of a stream.
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