n.
1. Lack of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill.
Laziness and inertness of mind.Burke.
2. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
inertness
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noun
- A lack of action or activity: idleness, inaction, inactivity, inoperativeness, stagnation. See action/inaction.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
immobility by virtue of being inert
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