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All inertia synonyms

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noun inertia

  • laziness — lazy evaluation
  • apathy — You can use apathy to talk about someone's state of mind if you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about anything.
  • sluggish — indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
  • passivity — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
  • paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
  • inactivity — not active: an inactive volcano.
  • torpor — sluggish inactivity or inertia.
  • torpidity — inactive or sluggish.
  • lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
  • sloth — habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
  • idleness — the quality, state, or condition of being lazy, inactive, or idle: His lack of interest in the larger world and his consummate idleness were the causes of their dreadful divorce.
  • listlessness — having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent: a listless mood; a listless handshake.
  • stillness — silence; quiet; hush.
  • stupor — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
  • lassitude — weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor.
  • languor — lack of energy or vitality; sluggishness.
  • indolence — the quality or state of being indolent.
  • immobilization — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
  • dullness — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
  • unresponsiveness — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • drowsiness — half-asleep; sleepy.
  • immobility — the quality or condition of being immobile or irremovable.
  • oscitancy — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
  • dead — A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living.
  • disinterest — absence of interest; indifference.
  • inaction — absence of action; idleness.
  • unwillingness — not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.
  • deadness — The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
  • immobilisation — Alternative spelling of immobilization.
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