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Webster 1913 Edition
Inactivity
Inˊac-tiv′i-ty
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
inactivité
.] 1.
The state or quality of being inactive; inertness;
as, the
. inactivity
of matter2.
Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; lack of energy; sluggishness.
The gloomy
inactivity
of despair. Cook.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inactivity
INACTIV'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Idleness, or habitual idleness; want of action or exertion; sluggishness.Definition 2024
inactivity
inactivity
English
Noun
inactivity (countable and uncountable, plural inactivities)
- The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.
- 1994, Helene Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, David Park Curry, American Impressionism and Realism
- Painters depicted Idle Hours (see fig. 99), reverie, solitude, and other themes that reflected Americans' new willingness to eschew productivity, and they sold their canvases to patrons who enjoyed both the inactivities portrayed and seeing themselves portrayed in inactivities.
- 1994, Helene Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, David Park Curry, American Impressionism and Realism
Derived terms
Translations
quality of being inactive
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