different between inactivity vs intervention

English

Etymology

From in- +? activity.

Noun

inactivity (countable and uncountable, plural inactivities)

1. The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.
   • 1994, Helene Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, David Park Curry, American Impressionism and Realism

     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 themselves portrayed in inactivities.

Derived terms

• masterly inactivity

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventi?

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?nt??v?n??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nt??v?n??n/
• Rhymes: -?n??n
• Hyphenation: in?ter?ven?tion

Noun

intervention (countable and uncountable, plural interventions)

1. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
2. (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
3. An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
4. (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• introvenient

Danish

Etymology

From Latin interventi?, from interveni? (“I intervene, come between”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ent?rv?nsjo?n/, [ent??v?n??o??n]

Noun

intervention c (singular definite interventionen, plural indefinite interventioner)

1. (law) intervention

   Synonyms: indblanding, indgriben

Inflection

Finnish

Noun

intervention

1. Genitive singular form of interventio.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interventi?, interventi?nem.

Pronunciation

Noun

intervention f (plural interventions)

1. intervention

Further reading

• “intervention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

intervention (plural interventiones)

1. intervention

Swedish

Noun

intervention c

1. (law) intervention

   Synonyms: ingripande, inblandning

Declension