slowth UK /sləʊθ/US /slɔθ/ noun2 •Slow economic growth.Slowth lies behind the difficulties each of us faces in achieving the standard of living we desire. — 1980 •The state or condition of being slow; slowness.The tempo of the introduction, which Mahler has marked to be slow and dragging, is of the utmost "slowth" (if I may use such a word to denote the creepy, crawling atmosphere thus created). — 1983