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单词 tardity
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tardityn.

/ˈtɑːdɪti/
Forms: Also Middle English -ee, 1500s–1600s -ie.
Etymology: < Old French tardité (1420 in Godefroy), earlier tardeté, < Latin tarditās , < tardus slow: see -ity suffix.
Now rare.
1. Slowness of movement or action: = tardiness n. a. In later use, a technical term of Physics, opposed to velocity.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [noun]
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hoolinessa1340
latesomeness1357
slothc1380
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slownessa1398
lateliness?c1400
sluggednessc1425
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tardityc1450
lenta1500
ignavy1543
retardance1550
lingering1570
tardiness1608
lentitude1623
languidness1634
tediousness1691
lentora1763
slow-coaching1837
snailishness1905
the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > tardiness or sluggishness
hoolinessa1340
latesomeness1357
slothc1380
lateshipc1390
lateliness?c1400
sluggednessc1425
slugginessc1450
sluggishnessc1450
tardityc1450
ignavy1543
tardiness1608
lentitude1623
languidness1634
tediousness1691
lentora1763
tarditude1794
laggardness1869
the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > [noun] > speed or direction as vector quality > opposite of
tardity1852
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋644 The synne that men clepen Tarditas, as whan a man is to laterede or tariyng er he wole turne to god.]
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 4410 Wightlayke delyvrenesse with out ony tarditee.
1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 178v For his rude simplicitie and tarditie.
1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xxiii. 514 [He] confesseth velocitie, and tarditie, in the Moone.
1656 S. Holland Don Zara i. i. 2 The Champion began to tax himself of tardity.
1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. vii. v. 177 The tardity of the periodick motion in their respective Orbits.
1852 A. De Morgan Let. 16 Apr. in R. P. Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 353 In every semicircle, the intension of the breadth (ordinate) begins from the utmost degree of velocity, and terminates at the utmost degree of tardity in the middle of the arc.
2. The fact of being late; lateness.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [noun] > lateness
latesomeness1357
lateness1564
tardity1599
belatedness1631
tardiness1752
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 33 [They] furrowe vp the rugged brine, and sweepe through his tumultuous oous [= ooze]..rather then in tendring their alleagance they should be benighted with tardity.
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 41 For tarditie and suspence of the assent, may arise by some obstacle not remooued.
1638 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 486 I beseech you..not to conceive by the tarditie of my Answer unto you, any faintnesse in the acknowledgment of your favors.
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