'Immobility' definitions:
Definition of 'immobility'
(from WordNet)
noun
Remaining in place [syn: stationariness, immobility, fixedness]
noun
The quality of not moving [ant: mobility]
Definition of 'Immobility'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'immobility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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