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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
a wise passiveness, comfort, contemplation, contemplative life, deliberateness, deliberation, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dolce far niente, dormancy, ease, fixation, fixity, hastelessness, hibernation, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactiveness, indolence, inertia, inertness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languidness, laziness, leisureliness, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, meditation, motionlessness, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quiet, quietism, relaxation, relaxedness, repose, rest, restfulness, serenity, sleep, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, stillness, torpor, tranquillity, unbuttoned ease, unhastiness, unhurriedness, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting
Dictionary Results for inactivity:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
inactivity
    n 1: the state of being inactive [syn: inaction, inactivity,
         inactiveness] [ant: action, activeness, activity]
    2: a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to
       overcome his inertia and get back to work" [syn:
       inactiveness, inactivity, inertia] [ant: activeness,
       activity]
    3: being inactive; being less active [ant: activity]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inactivity \In`ac*tiv"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. inactivit['e].]
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   1. The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the
      inactivity of matter.
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   2. Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion;
      lack of energy; sluggishness.
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            The gloomy inactivity of despair.     --Cook.
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