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Definition

a disposition to continue in the same manner — such as sit still and do nothing or continue moving in a particular direction

She had to overcome her inertia and get back to work.

inertia = a disposition to continue in the same manner — such as sit still and do nothing or continue moving in a particular direction

The rocket's inertia will take it out of the solar system.
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Such inertia is not canceled in an instant, but I felt the body responses pass as they should.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
At length, goaded, he would lash his great bulk, lulled in the powerful inertia of its visions, into a cursing and violent movement.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
I brought it back to the ship, charged it up, reprogrammed the inertia chips, and voild!
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
I must beware of inertia.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
, who enlisted in the Army to escape the inertia of his hometown.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
But seven people were nothing: they were worse than nothing, because they were evidence of the inertia of the uncapturable mass.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
The city had us, prisoners of its beauty and inertia.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
But a kind of inertia engendered by loss kept him where he was, and he leaned back broodily against the skylight.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Ishmael had hung on to it in part from sheer inertia, in part because driving it reminded him of his father.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
Once I was off my feet, inertia took hold.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
For a few seconds the inertial forces held them flattened and squirming for breath, unable to move.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
He'd risen through NASA's ranks as fast as one could in the large, inertia-bound organization.
Andy Weir -- The Martian
For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in inertia or in immobility.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
I see light, magnetism, electricity, and gravity in equation, and the theory handily explains inertia.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Yes, the vibration problem has been overcome by the exclusive Vibro-Dynamic-Lateral-Anti-Inertial Dampening system.
Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Partly it was mission, partly inertia, partly adventure, partly a way of tracing the possibilities.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato

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