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Inaction vs Sluggishness - What's the difference?

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Inaction is a related term of sluggishness.


As nouns the difference between inaction and sluggishness

is that inaction is want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness while sluggishness is the property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.

inaction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

    • Related terms

    * inactive * inactively * inactivity

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    sluggishness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
  • The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
  • * 2012 , , Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty? :
  • ** And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.