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inertia

noun
/ɪnˈɜː.ʃə/UK/ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/US

Etymology

From Latin inertia (“lack of art or skill, inactivity, indolence”), from iners (“unskilled, inactive”), from in- (“without, not”) + ars (“skill, art”). Something close to the modern physics sense was first used in New Latin by Johannes Kepler.

  1. borrowed from inertia

Definitions

  1. The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion

    The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.

  2. In a person, unwillingness to take action.

    • Men […] have immense irresolution and inertia.
    • Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.
    • City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.

  3. Lack of activity

    Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

The neighborhood

Derived

bureaucratic inertia, center of inertia, centre of inertia, entreprenertia, inertial, inertialess, inertia selling, inertia time, inertia welding, microinertia, moment of inertia, practico-inertia, uterine inertia

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