n. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
n. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
n. Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Lack of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
n. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state or quality of being inert
n. The state of being inherently destitute of the power of motion or action; that property by which bodies tend to persist in a state of rest, or of motion derived from external force. See inertia.
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n. immobility by virtue of being inert
Word Usage
"Thus we shall speak of matter as showing the attribute of 'inertness', when it is subject to mechanical causation, of 'alertness', when it is subject to magical causation."