Lexic.us

Definition of Inactiveness

1. Noun. The state of being inactive.

2. Noun. A disposition to remain inactive or inert. "He had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inactiveness

inactivated inactivated polio vaccine inactivated poliovirus vaccine inactivated serum inactivates inactivating inactivation inactivations inactivator inactivators

inactive inactive mutant inactive repressor inactive tuberculosis inactively inactiveness (current term) inactivities inactivity inactose inactuate

inactuated inactuates inactuating inactuation inadaptability inadaptable inadaptation inadaptations inadaptive inadept

Literary usage of Inactiveness

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1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1915)
"Since these ants were abnormal, it is reasonable to attribute the difference of 2.26 seconds in reaction time to the inactiveness of the insects, ..."

2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1839)
"... and an inactiveness of spirit. All Christian people must come. They, indeed, that are in the state of sin, must not come so, but yet they must come. ..."

3. Thirty Years of New York Politics Up-to-date by Matthew Patrick Breen (1899)
"Q. " It was not inactiveness? " A. " No; you went straight to the Bowery and done all you could over there. ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D. by Thomas Sydenham (1848)
"... whom, though they perceived n0 inconveniences but what their exercises then carried off, yet the necessary inactiveness of old age made them suffer what ..."

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