[syn: inactiveness, inactivity, inertia]
3. being inactive; being less active;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Inactivity \In`ac*tiv"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. inactivit['e].]
[1913 Webster]
1. The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the
inactivity of matter.
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2. Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion;
lack of energy; sluggishness.
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The gloomy inactivity of despair. --Cook.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
inactivity
n 1: the state of being inactive [syn: inaction, inactivity,
inactiveness] [ant: action, activeness, activity]
2: a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to
overcome his inertia and get back to work" [syn:
inactiveness, inactivity, inertia] [ant: activeness,
activity]
3: being inactive; being less active [ant: activity]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "inactivity":
a wise passiveness, comfort, contemplation, contemplative life,
deliberateness, deliberation, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism,
do-nothingness, dolce far niente, dormancy, ease, fixation, fixity,
hastelessness, hibernation, idleness, immobility, inaction,
inactiveness, indolence, inertia, inertness, laissez-aller,
laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languidness, laziness,
leisureliness, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, meditation,
motionlessness, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness,
noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance,
passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity,
peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, policy,
procrastination, quiescence, quiet, quietism, relaxation,
relaxedness, repose, rest, restfulness, serenity, sleep, sloth,
slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, stagnancy,
stagnation, standpattism, stasis, stillness, torpor, tranquillity,
unbuttoned ease, unhastiness, unhurriedness, vegetation,
vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting