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Definition of Immobility
1. Noun. Remaining in place.
Generic synonyms: Lifelessness, Motionlessness, Stillness
Specialized synonyms: Rootage
Derivative terms: Fixed, Immobile, Stationary, Stationary
2. Noun. The quality of not moving.
Specialized synonyms: Immotility, Inertness, Immovability, Immovableness
Antonyms: Mobility
Definition of Immobility
1. n. The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.
Definition of Immobility
1. Noun. the quality of not moving ¹
2. Noun. the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immobility
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immobility
Literary usage of Immobility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"CHAPTER 57 LABOR UNIONS Section 1. Bargaining power of laborers strengthened by
onions. We of the single laborer. immobility of labor; lack of ..."
2. The Pathology of Emotions: Physiological and Clinical Studies by Charles Féré (1899)
"Summary—immobility—Fatigue and Paralyses by Exhaustion. PATHOLOGY can be perhaps
better utilised for placing in relief the effects of defective or ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1831)
"Although I have before often operated for immobility of the jaw, ... Case of
immobility of the Jaw, successfully treated by Professor Moll's Complicated ..."
4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1911)
"The indefinite continuance of such trade thus rests on immobility of labor between
countries,—on the ties of language, nationality, religion, ..."
5. A System of surgery v.2: Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative by Samuel David Gross (1872)
"immobility OF THE EYE. immobility of the eye, technically termed ... The immobility
may be complete, the patient having lost all control over the organ, ..."
6. An Elementary Treatise on Estates: With Preliminary Observations on the by Richard Preston (1820)
"This division and general view of the subject was introduced principally for the
purpose of correcting an inaccuracy, that immobility is requisite to the ..."
7. Social Psychology: An Outline and Source Book by Edward Alsworth Ross (1908)
"... British immobility American immobility when there was no reason for pausing —
when a mere observer from without would say that they were likely !not to ..."
8. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Mr. Middleton was persuaded to play various grave parts, Gwendolen having flattered
him on his enviable immobility of countenance ; and, at first a little ..."
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