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Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.

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  1. n. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
  2. n. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
  3. n. immobility by virtue of being inert
  4. 1. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke. 2. Absence of the power of motion">self-motion; inertia.
  5. n. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. n. Absence of the power of motion">self-motion; inertia.