All inertness synonyms
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I i 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.