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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INACTIV'ITY, n. [in and activity.] Inertness; as the inactivity of matter.
1. Idleness, or habitual idleness; want of action or exertion; sluggishness.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun see inactive

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inactivity In`ac*tiv"i*ty, n. [Cf. F. inactivit['e].] 1. The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter. 2. Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. --Cook.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see inactive

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Inaction, inertness, laziness, indolence, idleness, sloth, supineness, torpor, torpidity, sluggishness, dilatoriness, Fabian policy.

Moby Thesaurus

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