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in·ac·tiv·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. inaction, inactivity, inactivenessnoun

    the state of being inactive

    Synonyms:
    inactiveness, inertia, inaction

    Antonyms:
    activity, action, activeness

  2. inactiveness, inactivity, inertianoun

    a disposition to remain inactive or inert

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

    Synonyms:
    inactiveness, inertia, inaction

    Antonyms:
    activity, action, activeness

  3. inactivitynoun

    being inactive; being less active

    Synonyms:
    inertia, inactiveness, inaction

    Antonyms:
    action, activity, activeness

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Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. inactivitynoun

    Synonyms:
    inaction, inertness, laziness, indolence, idleness, sloth, supineness, torpor, torpidity, sluggishness, fabian policy

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inactivitynoun

    Synonyms:
    inaction, passivity, inertia, lethargy, dormancy, stagnation, torpor, latency, sloth, fabian policy

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#79183disuse
#89110immobility
#109877quiescence

How to use inactivity in a sentence?

  1. Von Borries:

    Doing nothing isnt very easy, we want to focus on active inactivity. If you say you are not going to move for a week, then thats impressive. If you propose you are not going to move or think, that might be even better.

  2. Katarzyna Sokl:

    Hydrogenase is an enzyme present in algae that is capable of reducing protons into hydrogen, during evolution, this process has been deactivated because it wasn’t necessary for survival but we successfully managed to bypass the inactivity to achieve the reaction we wanted — splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.

  3. Ryszard Kapuściński:

    In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  4. Rhonda Randall:

    Now, if we focus our attention to other lifestyle choices -- like physical inactivity, like obesity -- and find out as individuals what motivates us, what are the small changes that we can make that we'll stick with.

  5. Said Hanson:

    I think the perfect storm of COVID fears, locking down two-thirds of the population for 15 months, the self-induced recession, the Trump derangement syndrome, the George Floyd death, the 120 days of riots, the inactivity and inability to get people to meet one another, the crazy election, all of that was the spark or the fuse that lit the preexisting problems.


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