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Trägheit — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • acedia noun Spiritual or mental sloth and the feeling it provokes; apathy or indifference; a lack of care or interest and the resultant avoidance of duties; a bored melancholy leading to desperation, restlessness and anxiety.
  • idleness noun The state of not working or doing anything; laziness or inactivity.
  • inaction noun A failure to act; doing nothing when something should be done.
  • indolence noun Habitual laziness or sloth.
  • inertia noun In physics, the tendency of an object to keep doing whatever it's already doing — staying still or moving in a straight line — unless a force acts on it.
  • inertness noun Lack of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion
  • laziness noun Unwillingness to work or make an effort.
  • lethargy noun A lack of energy and enthusiasm; sluggishness or drowsiness.
  • phlegm noun Thick mucus produced in the throat or airways, especially when coughed up during a cold or infection.
  • sloth noun Laziness or a strong reluctance to make an effort.
  • slowness noun The quality or state of being slow.

Senses

Trägheit is used for these senses in English:

  • acedia Spiritual or mental sloth.
  • idleness The state of being indolent; indolence.
  • inaction Lack of action or activity or labor
  • indolence Habitual laziness or sloth.
  • inertia (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
  • inertia (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
  • laziness The quality of being lazy
  • lethargy A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness. [from 14th c.]

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