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The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

Lack of energy; inactivity. -- An*er"gic (#), a.

A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay.

Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.

Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.

Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.

being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity. Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. As there is a great truth wrapped up in "diligence," what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word "indolence"! This is from "in" an…

d; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy. "A wise and masterly inactivity." Sir J. Mackintosh.

The quality or condition of any substance which has no inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.

Fig.: To impair by time and inactivity. Johmson.

Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity. [Obs.]

To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope" Young.

The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity. Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages. J. A. Symonds.

Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

Inactivity. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Inertness; inactivity. Vis intertiæ and inertia are not strictly synonymous. The former implies the resistance itself which is given, while the latter implies merely the property by which it is given. -- Vis mortua Etym: [L.] (Mech.), dead force; force doing no active work, but only producing pressure. -- Vis vitæ, o…