0 the state of doing nothing:
a period of inactivity
Inactivity contributes to weakness, fatigue and sleeplessness.
1 the situation when not much is happening, for example when not much buying or selling is taking place:
Lifestyle choices such as smoking, overeating, and physical inactivity contribute to many health problems.
Annoyed by her enforced inactivity, she made a restless patient.
Employment is up while unemployment and economic inactivity is down.
During the dry season the locusts could be approached nearer than during the rains, owing to their inactivity when the humidity is low.
We imagine that waiting is a state of suspension, of inactivity, a state of physical inactivity and lack of forward movement.
Disability and unemployment insurance funds have been utilised in particular as alternative pathways to inactivity.
In addition to concerns about health status, some participants believed that the assumed high levels of physical inactivity reinforced a stereotypical view of ageing.
The other -calculus constructs are group restriction and inactivity.
