Adjective : inert matter. From Dictionary.com.
How does the notion of inertness come at all, then?. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
That empire had been forced upon her by the inertness of. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
After a desperate struggle against the inertness of Western. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Too much vivacity and too much inertness are both fatal to politeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
The main physical advantage of glass is its inertness and impermeability. From Wordnik.com. [3 Packaging materials] Reference
Her inertness vanished; the sudden anger and wonderment in her eyes met the passion in his. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The slave, of course, is not permitted the ignorance, inertness and mediocrity of the free woman. From Wordnik.com. [Kajira Of Gor]
It was pleasant to lie quiet, aspiring to inertness, but he was failing in his conversational duties. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
I had not had an opportunity to prepare myself for the touch, to perhaps steel myself into inertness. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
Mere bluntness and inertness of intellect, which the name would suggest, he never confines himself to. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Jude, lazy with the inertness of a too sharply defined ancestry, became rapidly a well-developed parasite. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
Then the air was slowly, very slowly, exhaled, and his body as slowly flattened itself down into inertness. From Wordnik.com. [All Gold Cañon] Reference
The people are returned to passiveness, inertness, and unconsciousness; the legislator enters into omnipotence. From Wordnik.com. [View images tagged “Complete Falsehoods” …] Reference
The Master seems to chide the inertness of his servants when he says, "the fields are white already to harvest.". From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
All other forces have phenomena of repulsion and of inertness irrespective of distance, as well as of attraction. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Their inertness also contributed to the "octet rule" in the theory of chemical bonding (see Gilbert Newton Lewis). From Wordnik.com. [Ramsay, William] Reference
The monads completely fill the world; there is never and nowhere a void, and never complete inanimateness and inertness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Its very inertness is why the first brain researchers named their new science after the neuron instead of its insulation. From Wordnik.com. [Myelination and Horizontality] Reference
Paraffins are a mixture of solid saturated hydrocarbons characterized by their inertness in the presence of chemical agents. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
Le Carré presents Justin as self-contained to the point of inertness and seemingly with no serious interests beyond his garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Body Hunters] Reference
I expressed to him my wonder at the apathy and inertness of men born with the indomitable energy which characterises Europeans and. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
This was quietly effected through the cooperation of the family physician, who successfully drugged poor "Doc" into pacific inertness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
There will always be conservatism enough in Congress, and inertness enough in the Democratic party, to hold in check even as brilliant. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Israel may be concerned about the turmoil and fear a post-Mubarak Egypt, but there's no evidence that is the cause of Obama's inertness. From Wordnik.com. [Soros blames Jews for Egypt] Reference
It is true there is a darker side -- much bigotry, pride of race, scorn of other creeds, and, speaking generally, a tendency to inertness. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
This kind of being has shaken off the reproach of inertness. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
Now, there is no doubt at all that there is inertness somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
Here are the two things, Man and Nature; with which thing does the inertness lie?. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
I do not grant that by taking from matter the reproach of inertness, you would make it spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
Does it justify the inertness of governments who neglect to remedy the evil while it is yet time?. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
Also, they have a glass like appearance, good transparency, lustre, chemical inertness and unbreakability. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Its rarity and inertness (to chemical reaction and decomposition) make it both a stable currency and element. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
It might be thought that the war was to last another half century, from the excessive inertness of both parties. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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