motionlessness
- noun
- /ˈmoʊʃənləsnəs/
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inmovilidad
- Here, down below, space was enveloped in silence and motionlessness.
The key thing to understand here is that the period of motionlessness and deep relaxation while awake increases dopamine in the nigrostriatal pathway.
- The key thing to understand here is that the period of motionlessness and deep relaxation while awake increases dopamine in the nigrostriatal pathway.
Examples
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Her coding of motionlessness goes back to at least 1963.
Academic text (1999) -
"I see nothing of her but motionlessness."
Academic text (1992) -
The hard, even beat of her heart filled the vacuum of motionlessness she had created.
Fiction book (1996) -
More motionlessness.
Academic text (2007) -
The key thing to understand here is that the period of motionlessness and deep relaxation while awake increases dopamine in the nigrostriatal pathway.
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A sense of motionlessness as proof of sanity in a peculiarly scheduled world, immaculately freshened every moment, isn't where I was before.
Fiction book (1991) -
In the midst of the chaos, there was an eerie sense of motionlessness that left everyone feeling uneasy.
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The garden was covered in motionlessness as the sun set, casting long shadows over the still flowers.
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After the storm, the lake was a picture of motionlessness, reflecting the clear blue sky above.
Synonyms
38
3.5
A time of complete quiet and no movement that feels calm
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3.5
A period of time with no movement or action
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6.3
A state of no movement or not being able to move
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7.5
A state of not moving or not reacting to change
A condition of staying in one place without moving
When something stays in the same place and does not change over time
Not being able to move, especially in living things
Being unable to move because of shock, fear, or not knowing what to do
Antonyms
How Still
Surface Forms
Morphology
motionlessness = motionless (transparent) = motion + less + ness
Standard nominalization of the adjective 'motionless' by '-ness'; the sequence motion -> motionless -> motionlessness is directly predictable.
Etymology
Motionlessness is made from motion meaning 'movement', plus -less meaning 'without' and the ending -ness that makes the word a noun. So motionlessness means the 'state of being without movement', or simply being completely still.