inertia

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

in·er·tia BrE [ɪˈnɜːʃə] NAmE [ɪˈnɜːrʃə] noun uncountable
1. (usually disapproving)lack of energy; lack of desire or ability to move or change
•I can't seem to throw off this feeling of inertia.
•the forces of institutional inertia in the school system
2. (physics)a property (= characteristic) of ↑matter (= a substance) by which it stays still or, if moving, continues moving in a straight line unless it is acted on by a force outside itself

Word Origin:
[inertia] early 18th cent. (in sense 2): from Latin, from iners, inert- ‘unskilled, inactive’, from in- (expressing negation) + ars, art- ‘skill, art’.

Example Bank:
•Projects were frequently abandoned through sheer inertia.
•She lapsed into inertia and lay there as if asleep.
•The forces for change are not sufficient to overcome bureaucratic inertia.
•The forces for change in the government are not sufficient to overcome bureaucratic inertia.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  inactiveness, inactivity
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  activeness, activity