[ad. L. lentitūdo, f. lentus slow. Cf. F. lentitude (Cotgr.).] Slowness, sluggishness.
1623. Cockeram, Lentitude, slownesse.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., II. viii. § 3. 207. Lentitude, Stupor.
1832. I. Taylor, Saturday Even. (1833), 210. There is a serenity—might we say a lentitude of the physical temperament.
1862. Mrs. Speid, Our Last Y. Ind., 41. The eternal struggle between English punctuality and oriental lentitude.
