immobility
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6.3
- noun
- /ˌɪməˈbɪləti/
:
inmovilidad
- The mottled summer in the window reminded me of the freedom from which this persistent immobility deprived me.
- total immobility
- immobility and pain
- vocal fold immobility
And the first thing they think about is the visible part of people that might think that it's onset of dementia, pain, immobility, rigidness.
- And the first thing they think about is the visible part of people that might think that it's onset of dementia, pain, immobility, rigidness.
Examples
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Hattie had been her typical self, whining about her immobility while building her strength.
Fiction book (2000) -
According to the OECD report, the main cause of social immobility is educational opportunity.
Blog text (31) -
Little information was available on the acute period when pain and immobility are strongest.
Academic text (2006) -
It's for thrombosis, for patients with immobility.
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Future foreign policy success is thus essentially a function of overcoming the immobility of the Japanese system.
Academic text (1991) -
Bilateral vocal fold immobility is an uncommon but serious condition with many causes.
Academic text (2006) -
A calm gray immobility; even the delicate threads of rain are frozen in the air.
Fiction book (1998) -
One year of immobility, judging by... muscle and spine deterioration.
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Much vegetal life has the appearance of immobility due to its rootedness in the soil.
Academic text (2017) -
After the surgery, his immobility made it difficult for him to get out of bed.
Synonyms
81
5.4
Loss of movement and feeling in all or part of the body
12
3.5
A period of time with no movement or action
1
7.5
A state of not moving or not reacting to change
A time when a person or thing is completely still
A condition of staying in one place without moving
Not being able to move, especially in living things
The state of being unable to move part of the body because of injury or being held still
A state in which something does not move or change
Being impossible to move or change
A period of not doing anything or moving
Antonyms
How Mobile
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word immobility begins with im- meaning 'not' and the rest comes from mobile, which means 'able to move', as you can see in automobile. So, immobility is the state of 'not moving' or being unable to move.