inertia
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6.5
- noun
- /ɪˈnɜrʃə/
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inercia
- All in all, the consequences of such political fragmentation include almost complete inertia and a popular disenchantment with "democracy."
- bureaucratic inertia
- institutional inertia
- mental inertia
Right now you're stuck in this inertia of resistance.
- Right now you're stuck in this inertia of resistance.
- She has high party inertia, a resistance to going fast.
- Because the inertia of being a loser is very strong.
- How fast can I get you through that sort of inertia phase that's going to keep you down?
- His laziness is not or his inertia is not actually laziness, he says.
- The first is that there's a tremendous amount of inertia in the way climate change works.
- And here it's simply just the poison being how much sleep inertia you're going to suffer.
- I, I think society is, it has a lot of inertia.
- We have a kind of biggest one is our habits, our inertia.
- Now, different people have different severities of sleep inertia.
- There's emotion, ego, social and inertia.
- The apathy, the anhedonia, and the inertia.
Examples
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Our identities have an inertia to them that is extremely difficult to stop or reverse.
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We will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and ignorance.
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Much more difficult, I think, is the question of the inertia of the system.
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And when you have inertia in terms of winning or losing, you tend to stay in inertia.
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Those are uncertainty, fear and inertia and usually in that order.
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Inertia accounts for 2/3 of the marriages in America.
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Large organizations move slowly, and understanding how to effectively use the inertia that builds up within a bureaucracy is critical.
Academic text (2008) -
Considerable geographic, institutional, and infrastructural inertia will need to be overcome to bring these together.
Academic text (2011) -
Overcoming his inertia, he bends over the candelero and thinks of leaving Habana.
Fiction book (1998) -
Many people find that their inertia prevents them from making important life changes.
Synonyms
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3.5
A period of time with no movement or action
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6.9
Refusing to change ideas or plans
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7.5
A state of not moving or not reacting to change
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7.7
A small feeling of not wanting to do something
A state when something stays the same over time
A period of not doing anything or moving
A state in which something does not move or change
A strict way of thinking that does not change
Stiffness that makes a body part or object hard to bend
A refusal to change an opinion or action despite pressure
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.8
A number showing how hard it is to change an object's spin based on how its mass is spread
How Inactive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inertia comes from Latin parts in- 'not' and ars 'skill', the same root as art and the English word inert. That original idea of 'not acting' explains the modern use: inertia can mean a person's or group's unwillingness to change or a general laziness that keeps things the same.