inactivity

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inactivity

  • /ˌɪn.ækˈtɪ.vɪ.ti/

noun inactivities

  1. countable, uncountable The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness. Painters depicted Idle Hours (see fig. 99), reverie, solitude, and other themes that reflected Americans' new willingness to eschew productivity, and they sold their canvases to patrons who enjoyed both the inactivities portrayed and seeing themselves portrayed in inactivities.

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Closest in meaning: inaction, inactiveness, inertia, idle, idleness, sedentary, dormancy, immobility, passivity, disuse, passiveness, lack, failure, apathy, slack, omission

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noun quality of being inactive

Españolociosidad, inactividad
हिन्दीनिष्क्रियता niṣkriytā
Portuguêsinatividade
Françaisinactivité
DeutschUntätigkeit
Italianoinattività
Ελληνικάαδράνεια adráneia
Românăinactivitate
Русскийбезде́йствие bezdéjstvije

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@misc{inactivity_2026,
  title = {inactivity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/inactivity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}