inertness
English
Noun
inertness (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
sluggishness
chemically unreactive
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References
- inertness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- inertness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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