Synonyms:
inaction, inactivity, inactiveness
Meaning: the state of being inactive
Usage examples
I'm sick of this inaction."
Anything was better than inaction.
But the siege of Potidaea put an end to her inaction; she had men inside it: besides, she feared for the place.
Christian, who commanded the Clotho, came storming to him one day, upbraiding him for his inaction, and demanding that he should take order about what was to do.
'But I believe in the resurrection of the body; that is what we say; and supposing, when a man dies--supposing it was most frightfully against one's will; that one hated the awful inaction that death brings, shutting a poor devil up like a child kicking against the door in a dark cupboard; one might surely one might--just quietly, you know, try to get out?
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Omayra Sánchez, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hamlet, License CC BY-SA 4.0