Meanings (ES + gloss)
inercia
The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
inercia
In a person, unwillingness to take action.
Men […] have immense irresolution and inertia.
Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for the…
Phrases