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Indifference vs Sluggishness - What's the difference?

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Indifference is a related term of sluggishness.


As nouns the difference between indifference and sluggishness

is that indifference is indifference, uncaringness while sluggishness is the property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.

indifference

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The state of being indifferent.
  • Unbiased impartiality.
  • Unemotional apathy.
  • * His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she was even human.
  • A lack of enthusiasm.
  • Unconcerned nonchalance.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}

    sluggishness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
  • The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
  • * 2012 , , Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty? :
  • ** 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.