Immobility
[,ɪmo'bɪləti]
Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Unmovableness, immovableness, immovability.
Typist: Penelope
Definition
n. the character of being immovable.—adj. Immob′ile.
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Examples
- The memories which made this resource utterly hopeless were a new current that shook Dorothea out of her pallid immobility. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The manners of Mr. Lodge have that immobility which comes from too much gazing at bad statues of dead statesmen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But then, with the breaking up of her immobility came the breaking up of the waters that the cold heart of the selfish boy had frozen. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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