Immobility

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immobility \Im`mo*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. immobilitas, fr. immobilis
     immovable; pref. im- not + mobilis movable: cf. F.
     immobilit['e]. See {Mobile}.]
     The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in
     place or state.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  immobility
       n 1: remaining in place [syn: {stationariness}, {fixedness}]
       2: the quality of not moving [ant: {mobility}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "immobility":
     a wise passiveness, abidingness, changelessness, constancy,
     contemplation, contemplative life, do-nothing policy,
     do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, durability, durableness,
     duration, endurance, firmness, fixation, fixedness, fixity,
     frozenness, hardening, hibernation, idleness, immobilization,
     immovability, immovableness, immutability, inaction, inactiveness,
     inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, inextricability,
     inflexibility, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy,
     irremovability, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism,
     lastingness, long standing, lull, meditation, motionlessness,
     neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement,
     nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
     nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance,
     passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity,
     permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency,
     policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, rigidity, solidity,
     stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standing, standpattism, stasis,
     steadfastness, suspension, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness,
     underactivity, unmovability, unyieldingness, vegetation,
     vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
     watching and waiting