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Logy vs Laggy - What's the difference?

logy | laggy |

As adjectives the difference between logy and laggy

is that logy is slow to respond or react; lethargic while laggy is having a delayed response to a change in the factors influencing it.

As a noun logy

is terms formed with the -logy suffix.

logy

English

Etymology 1

Attested from the 19th century, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Dutch log "heavy, dull".

Adjective

(er)
  • Slow to respond or react; lethargic.
  • * 1910 , " Duck Eats Yeast," The Yakima Herald :
    • Perkins discovered his prize duck in a logy condition.
  • * 1956 . “I was still logy with sleep; I shook my head to try to clear it”. Double Star .
    • The steering seems logy , you have to turn the wheel well before you want to turn.

    Etymology 2

    Nominalization of the -logy suffix.

    Noun

    (logies)
  • Terms formed with the -logy suffix.
  • * 1856 , Joseph Young, Demonology; or, the Scripture doctrine of Devils , page 372:
    • The many Logies and Isms that have lately come into vogue.
  • * 1891 , (Thomas Hardy), (w, Tess of the d'Urbervilles) , :
    • The perception arrested him less when he reflected that what are called advanced ideas are really in great part but the latest fashion in definition—a more accurate expression, by words in logy and ism, of sensations which men and women have vaguely grasped for centuries.

    laggy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having a delayed response to a change in the factors influencing it.
    • Gasoline prices usually show a laggier response to crude-oil price reduction than to crude-oil price increases.
  • (video games, informal) Tending to lag, or respond slowly because of network latency.
    • I've given up trying to play on that laggy server.