inactivity

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}]
    

Inactivity \In`ac*tiv"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. inactivit['e].]
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   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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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