Immobility

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
immobility
    n 1: remaining in place [syn: {stationariness}, {immobility},
         {fixedness}]
    2: the quality of not moving [ant: {mobility}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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