inertia
/ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/noun
A tendency to stay the same and avoid change or action, often from laziness or habit.
Example sentences
- “Out of sheer inertia, I've used the same bank for twenty years.”
- “Political inertia has delayed the new rail line for a decade.”
- “Breaking the inertia of a lazy Sunday took a lot of coffee.”
Common phrases: institutional inertia, bureaucratic inertia, out of inertia. In physics it is the tendency of an object to keep its state of rest or motion.