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inactivity

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *ən- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin āctīvitāsder. Middle French activitébor. English activity ▲ Latin in- ▲ Latin āctīvus Latin ināctīvuslbor. French inactifder. English inactive ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English inactivity From in- + activity or inactive + -ity.

  1. derived from activitas
  2. borrowed from activité
  3. prefixed as inactivity — “in + activity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being inactive

    The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at inactivity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01inactivity02idleness03indolent04procrastinating05procrastinate06delay

A definitional loop anchored at inactivity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at inactivity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA