Inertia

Noun

 * 1)  The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
 * 2)  In a person, unwillingness to take action.

Adjectives for Inertia
gross; somber; amiable; ordinary; insurmountable.

Verbs for Inertia
display—; fall into—; force—; lull into—; overcome—; reform—; shed—; stimulate—; subject to—; suspend—; weary of—; while away in—; —consumes; —dulls; —prevents; —resists; —weakens.

Thesaurus
inflexibility, irremovability, just being, laggardness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, lassitude, latency, laziness, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, listlessness, lotus-eating, lull, meditation, mere existence, mere tropism, motionlessness, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, pokiness, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, reluctance, remissness, rigidity, shiftlessness, slackness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, solidity, spring fever, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, suspense, suspension, tentativeness, torpor, underactivity, unmovability, unyieldingness, vagrancy, vegetation, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting, a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cautiousness, circumspection, contemplation, contemplative life, creeping, deadliness, deathliness, deliberateness, deliberation, dilatoriness, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, drawl, dullness, entropy, ergophobia, faineancy, faineantise, firmness, foot-dragging, hibernation, hoboism, idleness, immobility, immobilization, immovability, immovableness, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertness, inexertion, inextricability,

Etymology
From inertia: < iners: < in-: + ars:.

Synonyms

 * idleness, laziness, sloth, slothfulness

Derived terms

 * inertial
 * inertia welding
 * moment of inertia

Related terms

 * inert
 * inertness

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: inerteco, inerteca forto, inertforto
 * Estonian: inerts, inertsus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: treghet, treighet
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: do-mhùthadh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: tegevusetus, loidus
 * Finnish: vastahakoisuus
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: инертность, вялость
 * Scottish Gaelic:, do-mhùthadh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) inertia

Noun

 * 1) want of art or skill, unskillfulness, ignorance
 * 2)  inactivity, idleness, laziness, indolence

Related terms

 * inersitūdō
 * inersitūdō

Descendants

 * Catalan:
 * English:
 * French:


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From iners:, from in-: + ars:.