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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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How to use inactivity in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. Georges Benjamin:

    We know that ZIP code matters, we know very clearly that things such as educational attainment, access and utilization of things like tobacco, physical inactivity, nutrition, the location of if they have access to things like grocery stores, all those things matter at the county level and at the local level.

  3. 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.

  4. Rhonda Randall:

    What I hope we will see next year is that some of these trends really start to go in a better direction. As an example, the smoking trend in the United States has come down consistently over the 29 years of this report. That encourages me, 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. 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.


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