motionlessness

noun

as in inertia

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  1. inertia
  2. inaction
  3. suspension
  4. inertness
  5. abeyance
Noun
  • The Stanford researchers estimated that sellers can roughly double revenue because of consumer inertia, when people forget or put off canceling, and cancellation friction, when ending a subscription takes too much time or effort.
    — Barbara Booth, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026
  • For more than two decades, bad science and bureaucratic inertia have resulted in women and physicians having an incomplete view of HRT.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of inertia
Noun
  • Effective leaders make the cost of inaction visible while helping people see the opportunity ahead.
    — Andriana Eliadis, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The guy who isn’t paralyzed by inaction and seems unfazed by any incoming fire.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of inaction
Noun
  • The most prominent of those techniques were the use of airbags to land Pathfinder on Mars, as well its Sojourner rover's rocker-bogie suspension system.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Shortly after midnight on Thursday, Kelly imposed a fourteen-day suspension of the ban.
    — Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of suspension
Noun
  • So a material known for its inertness suddenly shows its true colors and starts to react and act as a catalyst.
    — Chris Lee, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
Definition of inertness
Noun
  • The palace directive keeps their formal royal titles in abeyance, frames their charitable work as private and leaves contentious security arrangements to police and a government panel.
    — Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Their styles as His and Her Royal Highness remain in abeyance and are not used.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of abeyance
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“Motionlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motionlessness. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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