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Inaction definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INAC'TION, n. Want of action; forbearance of labor; idleness; rest.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state of being inactive [syn: inaction, inactivity, inactiveness] [ant: action, activeness, activity]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1707 lack of action or activity ; idleness

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 lack of action. 2 sluggishness, inertness.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inaction In*ac"tion, n. [Pref. in. not + action: cf. inaction.] Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness. --Berkeley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you refer to someone's inaction, you disapprove of the fact that they are doing nothing. He is bitter about the inaction of the other political parties. N-UNCOUNT: oft with poss [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See inactivity.

Moby Thesaurus

dormancy, drift, fixation, fixity, hibernation, idleness, immobility, inactiveness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, lethargy, lull, motionlessness, quiescence, slackness, slothfulness, suspension, torpidity, underactivity