Lethargy vs Inertia - What's the difference?
lethargy | inertia | Synonyms |
(pathology) A condition characterized by extreme fatigue or drowsiness, or prolonged sleep patterns.
* c. 1599 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry IV, Part 2 :
* 2003 , Amanda Ripley, "At Last, the Pill for Men", Time , 20 Oct 2003:
A state of extreme torpor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion or interest; loosely, sluggishness, laziness.
* Atterbury
* 1995 , Bruce W Nelan, "Crime and Punishment", Time , 20 Mar 1995:
* 2008 , Nick Fletcher, The Guardian , 9 May 2008:
(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.
* Carlyle
* 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, "
(medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
Inertia is a synonym of lethargy.
As nouns the difference between lethargy and inertia
is that lethargy is a condition characterized by extreme fatigue or drowsiness, or prolonged sleep patterns while inertia is the property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.lethargy
English
Noun
- This Apoplexie is (as I take it) a kind of Lethargie , a sleeping of the blood, a horson Tingling.
- So in order to avoid unpleasant side effects like lethargy and sexual dysfunction, most recent trials also gave men testosterone supplements.
- Europe lay then under a deep lethargy .
- Yakovlev, one of the architects of the reforms put in place by Mikhail Gorbachev, says he too is "amazed" at the government's lethargy .
- The increase in mining stocks helped the FTSE 100 shake off some earlier lethargy and close 9.8 points higher at 6270.8, despite the disappointment of unchanged UK interest rates.
inertia
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(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.