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Webster 1913 Edition

Inertness

In-ert′ness

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Noun.
1.
Lack of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
Glanvill.
Laziness and
inertness
of mind.
Burke.
2.
Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.

Webster 1828 Edition

Inertness

INERT'NESS

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Noun.
The state or quality of being inert, or destitute of the power to move per se; that quality of passiveness by which bodies persist in a state of rest, or of motion given to them by external force. In the language of philosophy, this quality is called vis inertioe, or inertia.
1.
Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness.
In esse, [L.] in being; actually existing; distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be.

Definition 2024

inertness

inertness

English

Noun

inertness ‎(usually uncountable, plural inertnesses)

  1. Lack of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
  2. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
  3. (chemistry) Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements.

Translations

References

  • inertness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • inertness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Etymology

inert +‎ -ness

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