lagginess

English

Alternative forms

• laggyness

Etymology

From laggy +‎ -ness.

Noun

lagginess (uncountable)

1. The quality of being laggy.
   • 1917 February, House & Garden, page 74:

     Dame Spring comes late nowadays. The use of frames is the only way to defeat her exasperating lagginess. They turn garden uncertainties into certainties.

   • 1917 April, Joseph A. Maclay, “Sleep and Proper and Improper Methods of Sleeping in Relation to Health and Disease”, in The Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, volume XIV, pages 144–145, column 1:

     As winter comes on the windows are closed, the demand for fresh stirring air has become such a necessity that the effects of breathing and rebreathing an atmosphere heavily charged with C o2 make all the symptoms of restlessness, sleeplesness,^[sic] lagginess, dark brown taste in the morning and a general state of half-hearted ability more pronounced at this period of the year.

   • 1923 December, Everybody’s Poultry Magazine, page 979:

     Of course the birds should be watched every day as they come off the roost to see that there is none that has a suspicious paleness or redness or lagginess or a suspicious thirst.

   • 2013 September 7, Bengt Halvorson, “New Car Review: 2014 Kia Soul”, in The Oklahoman, volume 122, number 245, page 9F:

     Based on an Android linux operating system, it doesn’t suffer from the lagginess that plagues some such systems, and with plenty of apps planned for the future (Pandora and others are just the start) plus potentially easy upgrades through the SD card slot.

   • 2018 July–September, Paleotronic, volume 1, number 3, page 107:

     There have been some complaints of lagginess with regards to controllers/video with the system (some users claim this is an issue with the TV sets themselves) but generally the emulation is decent.

   • 2021 February 28, Scott Sturgis, “The 2021 Volvo V90 is so close to perfect”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 94, number 220, page F-4:

     Operation is fairly straightforward, with navigation, media, phone, and settings in expandable windows on the main screen. Swipe left for vehicle settings and right for more intense infotainment settings. But, yes, lagginess can happen, especially in cold weather.