inertia
[noun]
Synonyms: inactivity, apathy, immobility, lethargy, listlessness, passivity, sloth, unresponsiveness

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in‧er‧tia /ɪˈnɜːʃə $ -ɜːr-/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1700-1800; Language: Latin; Origin: iners; ⇒ inert]

1. when no one wants to do anything to change a situation:
political inertia

2. technical the force that keeps an object in the same position or keeps it moving until it is moved or stopped by another force

3. a lack of energy and a feeling that you do not want to do anything Synonym : apathy
—inertial adjective

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

inertia
noun
ADJ. sheer | bureaucratic, institutional, organizational, political
VERB + INERTIA lapse into She lapsed into inertia and lay there as if asleep.
overcome The forces for change in the government are not sufficient to overcome bureaucratic inertia.
PREP. out of ~ He stayed where he was, not because he really wanted to, but out of inertia.
through ~ Projects were frequently abandoned through sheer inertia.
PHRASES a state of inertia

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