Inertia vs Indolence - What's the difference?
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(physics, uncountable, or, countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
(figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
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(medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
Habitual laziness or sloth.
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As nouns the difference between inertia and indolence
is that inertia is the property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass while indolence is habitual laziness or sloth.inertia
English
(wikipedia inertia)Noun
- Men have immense irresolution and inertia .
Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.
Synonyms
* (unwillingness to take action) idleness, laziness, sloth, slothfulnessDerived terms
* inertial * inertia welding * moment of inertiaExternal links
* * * ----indolence
English
Noun
(en noun)- "It is indolence', Mr. Bertram, indeed. ' Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen."
- [H]er whole figure expressed a tense vibrant life in singular contrast to the apparent indolence of the men at whom she was talking.
In Praise of Lasiness," Time (retrieved 24 March 2014):
- [N]ow, after five weeks of doing nothing, I am an authority on the subject of indolence and glad to share my views with you.