Synonyms:
inactiveness, inactivity, inertia
Meaning: a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"
Usage examples
Inertia and its inhospitality.
Yet nothing visible came as yet, no alteration in the actual landscape, no sign of change in things familiar to his eyes, while impetus thus fought against inertia.
But these readjustments are insignificant in comparison with the social inertia that perpetuates all the classes, and even such shifts as occur at once re-establish artificial conditions for the next generation.