slowth

Meaning

Noun

• Alternative of sloth
• Slow economic growth.
• The state or condition of being slow; slowness.

Origin

• From Middle English slouthe, slewthe, from Old English slǣwþ ("sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor"), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō ("slowness, lateness"), equivalent to slow + -th. Cognate with Scots sleuth ("sloth, slowness").
• Recoinage slow + -th