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All inertness synonyms

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noun inertness

  • sluggish — indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
  • 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.
  • slouch — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
  • truancy — the act or state of being truant.
  • dormancy — the state of being dormant.
  • slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
  • 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.
  • loafing — to idle away time: He figured the mall was as good a place as any for loafing.
  • torpor — sluggish inactivity or inertia.
  • stagnation — the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow: Meteorologists forecast ozone and air stagnation.
  • sloth — habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
  • leisure — freedom from the demands of work or duty: She looked forward to retirement and a life of leisure.
  • inertia — inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
  • trifling — of very little importance; trivial; insignificant: a trifling matter.
  • inactivity — not active: an inactive volcano.
  • stupor — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
  • shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
  • slowness — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
  • indolence — the quality or state of being indolent.
  • dawdling — proceeding at a slow pace
  • unemployment — the state of being unemployed, especially involuntarily: Automation poses a threat of unemployment for many unskilled workers.
  • hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • droning — to make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz.
  • inoperative — not operative; not in operation.
  • laze — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
  • joblessness — without a job.
  • lazing — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
  • loitering — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
  • otiosity — being at leisure; idle; indolent.
  • pottering — putter1 .
  • time on one's hands — an interval with nothing to do
  • inaction — absence of action; idleness.
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