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Inertness vs Idleness - What's the difference?

inertness | idleness |

As nouns the difference between inertness and idleness

is that inertness is want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility while idleness is the state of being idle; inactivity.

inertness

English

Noun

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  • Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
  • Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
  • (chemistry) Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements.

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    idleness

    English

    Noun

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  • The state of being idle; inactivity.
  • The state of being indolent; indolence
  • Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality.

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