inertness
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Noun
editinertness (usually uncountable, plural inertnesses)
- Lack of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion
- Synonyms: sluggishness, apathy, insensibility
- Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
- (chemistry) Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements.
Translations
editsluggishness
chemically unreactive
References
edit- “inertness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “inertness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.