inaction
/ɪnˈækʃən/ noun C1- Lack of action or activity or labor · The school's inaction further sanctions this misbehavior.
Plural inactions
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That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction.
He paced restlessly about our sitting-room in a fever of suppressed energy, biting his nails, tapping the furniture, and chafing against inaction.
“You can imagine with what eagerness I listened to him, Watson, for the very chance for which I had been panting during all those months of inaction seemed to have come within my reach.
Things had indeed been very slow with us, and I had learned to dread such periods of inaction, for I knew by experience that my companion’s brain was so abnormally active that it was dangerous to leave it without material upon which to work.
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