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What is the noun for inaction?

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inaction
  1. Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The limitations of heterodoxy such as those I have described above go some way towards accounting for inaction and stasis.”
      “They wanted to know the reason for the Government's inaction against the land-grabbers.”
      “His inaction during the emergency situation led to dire consequences, highlighting his lack of action where it was expected.”
inactivity
  1. The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I continue to observe a continued passivity and inactivity by the administration in developing an adequate response to this movement by our trading partners.”
      “In other words, the gland being in a state of inactivity for a certain length of time naturally becomes congested from non-use.”
      “The trees, when no longer impelled by the fluctuating winds, return to motionless inactivity.”
inactigram
inactivation
  1. the process of rendering something inactive
  2. Examples:
    1. “However, the sodium channel inactivation gates are open in the hyperpolarized virtual anode region, causing the tissue to be excitable.”
      “The change in inactivation time constant indicates that MTSET-modified channels were carrying current.”
      “The state of gene inactivation is inherited epigenetically through multiple mitoses.”
inactiveness
  1. The quality of being inactive.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “During his recovery, Mark's inactiveness led to a decline in his physical strength and overall productivity.”
      “The GOM evaluates if a guild has too little participation, inactiveness or escalating emotional restless.”
      “It is important to know, that a definitive muscle mass burns calories even during inactiveness.”
inactivator
  1. That which inactivates.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “According to this scheme, a locally acting activator and a globally acting inactivator are coordinately controlled by the G-protein activation.”
      “If, however, an upstream process regulates the inactivator, this regulation needs to be proportional to the activation of the corresponding activator.”
      “Namely, the inactivator molecule has to be diffusible in its active state.”
inactivations
  1. plural of inactivation
inactivators
inactigrams
  1. plural of inactigram
inactivities
inactions
  1. plural of inaction
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She wants her actions, inactions, and mistakes to be above any legal reproach.”
      “As a student body, we must keep our leaders, people in positions of public trust, accountable for their actions and inactions.”
      “The Knights may have been unhorsed by their own actions or inactions as in the case of the Worcester County Shoe Strike of 1887, but outside pressures were mounting as well.”
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