inertia

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. (countable, uncountable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
3. (countable, uncountable) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

Konzepte

Trägheit

Massenträgheit

Beharrungsvermögen

Untätigkeit

Indolenz

Impuls

Arbeitsunwilligkeit

Schwung

Trägheitskraft

Inertie

Synonyme

inactivity

inertness

momentum

inaction

immobility

inactiveness

passivity

languor

sloth

🦥

laziness

sluggishness

apathy

insensibility

limpness

listlessness

negligence

remissness

shiftlessness

slackness

slothfulness

spiritlessness

stupor

torpor

vegetativeness

weakness

force of habit

oscitancy

oscitation

surplus power

inertance

nonreactivity

non-excite-ment

vis inertiae

indolency

slackerdom

asthenia

unreactivity

atonia

atony

block

deactivation

dormancy

enervation

flabbiness

habit

impetus

inactively

indolence

Übersetzungen

inertie

inercia

inerzia

inércia

αδράνεια

traagheid

inertie

inèrcia

accidia

🦥

indolencia

inactivité

atalet

inactivitat

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɪnˈɜː.ʃə/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Latin inertia (“lack of art or skill, inactivity, indolence”), from iners (“unskilled, inactive”), from in- (“without, not”) + ars (“skill, art”). The modern physics sense was first used in New Latin by Johannes Kepler.