Synonyms for inertia
ɪnˈɜr ʃə, ɪˈnɜr-in·er·ti·a

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1. inertianoun

   In a person, unwillingness to take action.

   Synonyms:
   slothfulness, idleness, laziness, sloth

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1. inertianoun

   Synonyms:
   cessation, deliberation, endurance, immobility, inaction, inactivity, passion (In philosophic sense), quiescence, quiet, repose, rest, suffering, suspension

   Antonyms:
   accomplishment, achievement, act, action, consummation, deed, doing, effect, execution, exercise, exertion, exploit, feat, motion, movement, operation, performance, proceeding, transaction, work

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. inactiveness, inactivity, inertianoun

   a disposition to remain inactive or inert

   "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"

   Synonyms:
   inactivity, inactiveness, inaction

2. inertianoun

   (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force

   Synonyms:
   inactivity, inactiveness

Matched Categories

1. • Mechanical Phenomenon
   • Physics
   • Trait

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1. inertianoun

   Synonyms:
   inertness, sluggishness, indisposition to move

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1. List of paraphrases for "inertia":

   inaction, indolence, inactivity, immobility, inert, apathy, passivity, inertial, sluggishness, slackness, slowness, stagnation

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1. James Chao:

   This creates an environment where inertia is the norm, which allows automakers which may otherwise disappear to continue to survive for decades.

2. David Chaudron:

   The transition away from being a rentier state is not a comfortable one, they’re trying. But the fundamental question is: will their trying bear enough fruit before the downside of the current system hits? Or is it a day late and a dollar short? Will the forces of change ultimately be enough to overcome the inertia of the current system? I don’t know.

3. John Kenneth Galbraith:

   Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

4. W. Clement Stone:

   The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

5. William James:

   Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.