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Definition of Inertness
1. Noun. Immobility by virtue of being inert.
Definition of Inertness
1. n. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
Definition of Inertness
1. Noun. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. ¹
2. Noun. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia. ¹
3. Noun. (chemistry) Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inertness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inertness
Literary usage of Inertness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man and His Dwelling Place: An Essay Towards the Interpretation of Nature by James Hinton (1861)
"So have we admitted so long the inertness we certainly feel, to be in nature,
only because it has been tacitly assumed to be so. The question has not been ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"Indifference of the Neapolitan People—Inertness of the Administration—Miserable
State of the Neapolitan Preparations—Advance ..."
3. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1862)
"... Mr. Stuart and the historian Cabanes—Prodigious force of the French army—State
of Spain— Inertness of ..."
4. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... Mr Stuart, and the historian Cabanes—Prodigious force of the French army—State
of Spain—Inertness of Gallicia—Secret plan ol the regency for encouraging ..."
5. Thermodynamics of Technical Gas-reactions: Seven Lectures by Fritz Haber (1908)
"The peculiar inertness characteristic of -nitrogen, which appears so ...
This peculiar inertness of nitrogen will always place a serious handicap on the ..."
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