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Inertness

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in·ert  (n-ûrt)
adj.
1. Unable to move or act.
2. Sluggish in action or motion; lethargic. See Synonyms at inactive.
3. Chemistry Not readily reactive with other elements; forming few or no chemical compounds.
4. Having no pharmacologic or therapeutic action.
[Latin iners, inert- : in-, not; see in-1 + ars, skill; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]
in·ertly adv.
in·ertness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.inertness - immobility by virtue of being inert
immobility - the quality of not moving


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It's enough to look at the red hands hanging at the end of those short arms, at those slow, prom- inent brown eyes, to know the inertness of her mind --an inertness that one would think made it ever- lastingly safe from all the surprises of imagina- tion.
Amy Foster by Conrad, Joseph View in context
FROM the inertness, or what we may term the vegetative character, of his ordinary mood, Clifford would perhaps have been content to spend one day after another, interminably,--or, at least, throughout the summer-time,--in just the kind of life described in the preceding pages.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
He was in a manner devoted to it with a sort of inert fanaticism, or perhaps rather with a fanatical inertness.
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