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inertness|ɪˈnɜːtnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or fact of being inert; inactivity; inactive or inoperative condition or character.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogmat. v. (R.), So long and deep a swoon as is absolute insensibility and inertnesse. 1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. i. § 25 The very being of an idea implies passiveness and inertness in it. 1793Burke Policy Allies Wks. VII. 195 It is not humanity, but laziness and inertness of mind. 1836J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. (ed. 2) 102 Perceiving this inertness, I myself took a teaspoonful of the tincture: nothing ensued upon it. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) I. i. v. 91 A greater inertness of the nerve-centres. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. v. 394 The great enemy of Knowledge is not error, but inertness. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 81 Nitrogen is remarkable for its inertness.
b. = inertia 1.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 305 Others..style the perseverance of body either in motion or rest a ‘force or power of inertness’. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. §234 Matter..presents us with two general qualities..activity and inertness. |