inertia

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noun

Plural noun:

inertiasinertiaeinertiæ

1.
(countable, uncountable)(physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
2.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)In a person, unwillingness to take action.
3.
(countable, uncountable)(medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

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Đồng nghĩa

idleness laziness sloth slothfulness

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From Latin inertia (lack of art or skill, inactivity, indolence), from iners (unskilled, inactive), from in- (without, not) + ars (skill, art). Something close to the modern physics sense was first used in - by Johannes Kepler.