Definition of "sluggishness"

sluggishness

noun
usually uncountable, plural sluggishnesses
1. The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
2. The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
  Quotations
  And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.
  2012, Javier Solana, Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty?‎