Backwardness
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The state of being backward. reluctance.
Slowness
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The quality or state of being slow.[physics] A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.
Example sentence: Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.