inertia
noun
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
inertias
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pluralof inertia.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We alternate between spasms of Virtue and comfortable inertias of Don't-care-a-Damn!
From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman
That as the bird wing is a screw in action, and acts directly between the inertias of the load and the air, the position and operation of the screw, to the load, must imitate it.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various
The pigs on my either hand had by this time overcome their respective inertias and were chomping cheek-murdering chunks.
From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
