• (n.) Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. • (n.) Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/inertness/
In·ert'ness noun 1. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. « Laziness and inertness of mind.» Burke. 2. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/I/50