THESAURUS
slackening
abatement, allayment, alleviation, arrest, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, calming, check, damping, deadening, debilitation, deceleration, delay, demulsion, detention, devitalization, dilution, diminution, drag, dulcification, dulling, ease-off, ease-up, easing, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, falling-off, fatigue, flagging, holdup, hushing, inanition, lag, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, minus acceleration, mitigation, modulation, mollification, obstruction, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, remission, retardation, retardment, setback, slack-up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowup, softening, soothing, subduement, tempering, thinning, tranquilization, weakening
ROGET THESAURUS
slackening
Slowness
N
slowness, languor, drawl, creeping, lentor, retardation,
slackening, delay, claudication, jog trot, dog trot, mincing steps, slow march, slow time, slow goer, slow coach, slow back, lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail, poke, dawdle, slow, slack, tardy, dilatory, gentle, easy, leisurely, deliberate, gradual, insensible, imperceptible, glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like, creeping, reptatorial, slowly, leisurely, piano, adagio, largo, larghetto, at half speed, under easy sail, at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace, in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings, haud passibus aequis, gradually, gradatim, by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little, step by step, one step at a time, inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim, consecutively, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, at a glacial pace.