lagginess
Sluggish system response
Lagginess is the quality of being laggy—slow to respond, delayed, or stuttering.
The term comes from online gaming, where lag describes the frustrating delay between a player's input and the game's response: The lagginess made the game unplayable.
It extends to any sluggish digital experience: a laggy app, a laggy video call.
Delay in system response
- jitterSmall, rapid variation
- stutteringInvoluntary speech disfluency
- bufferingTemporary data accumulation
- packet lossFailed data delivery
ping · response time · throughput · bandwidth · frame drops · input delay · rubber-banding · desynchronization
Mild anger or inflammation
- impatienceIntolerance of delay
- annoyanceState of being bothered
- exasperationIntense weary annoyance
- vexationFrustrated annoyance
waiting · disconnecting · restarting · troubleshooting · complaining
State of slow movement
- unresponsivenessLack of reaction
- choppinessIrregular, bumpy quality
- crawlingMoving on hands, knees
- draggingPulling with effort
stuttering · freezing · hitching · chugging · hanging · stalling · bogging down · grinding
latency
Delay in system response
- jitterSmall, rapid variation
- stutteringInvoluntary speech disfluency
- bufferingTemporary data accumulation
packet loss · ping · response time · throughput · bandwidth · frame drops · input delay · rubber-banding · desynchronization · frame rate
irritation
Mild anger or inflammation
- impatienceIntolerance of delay
- annoyanceState of being bothered
- exasperationIntense weary annoyance
vexation · waiting · disconnecting · restarting · troubleshooting · complaining
sluggishness
State of slow movement
- unresponsivenessLack of reaction
- choppinessIrregular, bumpy quality
- crawlingMoving on hands, knees
dragging · stuttering · freezing · hitching · chugging · hanging · stalling · bogging down · grinding · sputtering
- clunkinessawkwardness, bulkiness, clumsiness, ungainliness, unwieldiness
lagginessresponsiveness
Readiness to react
snappiness · immediacy · quickness · reactivity · low latency
lagginesssmoothness
Freedom from irregularity
fluidity · seamlessness · slickness · fluid motion · polish