Word Meanings - INERTITUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inertness; inertia. Good.

INERTIA
That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
INERTNESS
1. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke. 2. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.