inactivityin‧ac‧tiv‧i‧ty /ˌɪnækˈtɪvəti/ noun [uncountable] - But even she dared not dance, an inconvenience since Harry was plainly bored with this inactivity.
- By this stage even Asquith was worried about government inactivity.
- Daley leaned heavily on his precinct captains, charging Kennelly with inactivity.
- Is there any danger that this experience may precipitate five years of creative inactivity?
- So inactivity has a good deal going for it.
- The results of this inactivity epidemic are predictable.
- There are, however, often specific periods of, usually, intense activity, followed by periods of inactivity.
- They often occur because of conflicting considerations producing inactivity.
► period of inactivity The time spent between jobs should not be a period of inactivity. nounactaction ≠ inactionactivity ≠ inactivityreactioninteractionoveractingadjectiveactingactive ≠ inactiveverbact ≠ overactadverbactively