inertness

Noun

(uncountable)

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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inert +"Ž -ness

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It was valued chiefly on account of its brilliancy of tone and its inertness in opposition to sunlight, oil, and slaked lime (in fresco-painting).
Altogether a remarkable revival of belles-lettres has taken place in Sweden after a long period of inertness and conventionality.

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