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All objects resist a change in motion.

That is Newton's first law of motion. It requires only that the object have mass.

An object that is not acted on by an external force will continue in it previous state of straight line motion.

The property that all object have that resists a change in motion is called inertia.

The quantitative measure of the inertia of a body is called its mass.

This answer applies to movement through space. There is a similar explanation for rotational motion.

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