MOTIONLESSNESS Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

motionlessness

noun

as in inertia

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Noun

One of the biggest things going for Salesforce, Workday, and the other SaaS companies threatened by AI has simply been inertia.

— Shelly Banjo, semafor.com, 9 July 2026
When the operating model cannot evolve, AI doesn't overcome inertia.

— Nitin Rakesh, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of inertia

Noun

Trump was expected to sign the housing bill at Capitol Hill during a ceremony in June, but abruptly canceled in protest over the Senate’s inaction in passing his election legislation, the SAVE America Act.

— Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 13 July 2026
The precise magnitude of harms remains debated, but uncertainty is not an argument for inaction.

— Paul Jester, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026

Definition of inaction

Noun

The suspension is not absolute and there’s room for exceptions when executing a criminal warrant or working with partner agencies, according to a person who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive law enforcement operations.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 July 2026
The move puts a one-year suspension on construction of large-scale facilities in the state and is the first of its kind in the US, which is seeing a rapid AI infrastructure buildout to meet relentless demand for compute.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 14 July 2026

Definition of suspension

Noun

Maybe something like an abeyance.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 11 June 2026
The worry for Ukrainians is that the Iran war, which has been in abeyance for weeks, may now reignite after Iran launched missiles on Sunday at Israel in the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April, complicating mediation efforts for a deal to end the war.

— Pan Pylas, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026

Definition of abeyance

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