stop vs inactiveness

inactiveness vs stop

stop and inactiveness both are nouns.

stop is a verb but inactiveness is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stop	Yes	No	Yes	No
inactiveness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, inactiveness is a hypernym of stop; that is, inactiveness is a word with a broader meaning than stop:

stop: the state of inactivity following an interruption
inactiveness: the state of being inactive

Other hypernyms of stop include inaction, inactivity.

stop (noun)	inactiveness (noun)
the act of stopping something	a disposition to remain inactive or inert
a brief stay in the course of a journey	the state of being inactive
a restraint that checks the motion of something
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
the event of something ending
a spot where something halts or pauses
the state of inactivity following an interruption

stop (verb)	inactiveness (verb)
prevent completion
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
seize on its way
render unsuitable for passage
come to a halt, stop moving
cause to end
interrupt a trip
stop from happening or developing
put an end to a state or an activity
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

Difference between stop and inactiveness

Words related to "stop"

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