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US
/ˌɪnækˈtɪvɪti/
]
[ UK /ɪnæktˈɪvɪti/ ]
[ UK /ɪnæktˈɪvɪti/ ]
NOUN
- the state of being inactive
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a disposition to remain inactive or inert
he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work - being inactive; being less active
How To Use inactivity In A Sentence
- Although I have finally been given a small piece of work to do (nothing crucial, generous deadline), I'm finding it hard to apply myself after such a long period of enforced inactivity.
- Don't suddenly take up violent exercise after years of inactivity.
- Thus, arguments for participatory democracy focus on the inactivity of the large majority of the people in the political arena today.
- Obesity and inactivity kill 26,000 Americans a year, making them less lethal than relatively unknown diseases such as nephritis and septicemia.
- Whenever I begin exercising after a period of inactivity, my legs itch like mad for about 45 minutes after I run. - SpouseBUZZ
- The inactivity of the opposition movements currently in China is only a superficial phenomenon.
- S. macrurus stands to conserve more energy through reductions in EOD amplitude during periods of inactivity than is expended by the constitutive cycling of channels in the electrocyte. PLoS Biology: New Articles
- The results of this inactivity epidemic are predictable.
- The time spent between jobs should not be a period of inactivity .
- It pulls us into a life of silence and inactivity, lying and hiding our true fears.