inertia

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

inerzia

accidia

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indolenza

apatia

ignavia

poltroneria

neghittosità

neghienza

malvolere

sinonimi

inactivity

inertness

momentum

inaction

immobility

inactiveness

passivity

languor

sloth

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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

Traduzioni

Trägheit

inertie

inercia

inércia

αδράνεια

inertie

traagheid

inèrcia

indolencia

Massenträgheit

inactivité

Beharrungsvermögen

atalet

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɪnˈɜː.ʃə/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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.