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While some may classify that inactivity as laziness or indifference, Brown suggests the contrary.

To keep you off your seat and on your feet, many trackers will even vibrate after a certain timeframe of inactivity.

At long last, a rest—although God knows it takes full as much energy to unwind and force the inactivity as it does to be active.

Could it be that we are simply poorly adapted to inactivity?

“This can then lead to inactivity, which can lead to frailty, then to ill health,” she says.

It strikes me that your inactivity proceeds from your lack of concentration, in spite of your snug workshop.

And now, Sahib, after this event, my life became one of dull routine and inactivity.

Broke utilized this period of comparative inactivity to train his men thoroughly.

Talleyrand was heartily sick of his inactivity, and eagerly seized the opportunity to reassert his importance.

General Gage and the troops under his command are penned up, pining in inglorious inactivity.

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On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inactivity, such as: lethargy, sluggishness, stagnation, dawdling, dormancy, and droning.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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