Meaning of INACTIVITY
| Pronunciation: | | `inakt'ivutee
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- [n] being inactive
- [n] a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"
- [n] the state of being inactive
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| | Synonyms: | | inaction, inactiveness, inactiveness, inertia |
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| | Antonyms: | | action, activeness, activeness, activity, activity, activity | | |
| | See Also: | | abeyance, act, anergy, arrest, calcification, check, delay, desuetude, doldrums, dormancy, ease, extinction, halt, hitch, holdup, human action, human activity, idleness, idling, indolence, languor, laziness, lethargy, loafing, passiveness, passivity, pause, phlegm, quiescence, quiescency, relaxation, repose, rest, rest, restfulness, sluggishness, stagnancy, stagnation, stasis, state, stay, stop, stoppage, suspension, trait, wait, waiting | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`ac*tiv"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. inactivit['e].]
1. The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the
inactivity of matter.
2. Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion;
want of energy; sluggishness.
The gloomy inactivity of despair. --Cook.
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| | Related Terms: | | a wise passiveness, comfort, contemplation, contemplative life, deliberateness, deliberation, dolce far niente, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, ease, fixation, fixity, hastelessness, hibernation, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactiveness, indolence, inertia, inertness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languidness, laziness, leisureliness, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, meditation, motionlessness, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quiet, quietism, relaxation, relaxedness, repose, rest, restfulness, serenity, sleep, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, stillness, torpor, tranquillity, unbuttoned ease, unhastiness, unhurriedness, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting |
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