inactivity

The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.countableuncountable

• Painters depicted Idle Hours (see fig. 99), reverie, solitude, and other themes that reflected Americans' new willingness to eschew productivity, and they sold their canvases to patrons who enjoyed both the inactivities portrayed and seeing
• Shepard: How do the Reapers survive out in dark space? Vigil: We have only theories. The researchers here came to believe the Reapers enter prolonged states of inactivity to conserve energy. Vigil: This allows them to survive the thousands