Slowness, published in 1993, is a novel by Milan Kundera. In the book, Kundera manages to weave together a number of plot lines, characters and themes in just over 150 pages. While the book has a narrative, it mainly serves as a way for Kundera (who acts as narrator) to describe a philosophy about modernity, technology, memory and sensuality.

a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry

Measure of pulp drainage. Has in inverse relationship to freeness.

unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

The quality or state of being slow.