immovability

Examples

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• The dark, ancient immovability of the mountain calms him, and he thinks maybe he can sleep.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Craig was in his mid-twenties, "sober and just huge," as Wallace would later write in "Infinite Jest," looking "less built than poured, the smooth immovability of an Easter Island statue."

  Blog text (18)

• Celebration of the well-heeled, the wealthy, and the immovability of our status.

  Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher (2022)

• Our confidence in the immovability of our character may be complacent and premature.

  Academic text (1998)

• Are we hopelessly resigned to the stubborn immovability of what we believe?

  Blog text (9)

• It had been there a while already, by the pale, dried earth speckling its back and by the immovability of its defeated head.

  Fiction book (1990)

• There is unity, singularity, and immovability in these texts—and consequently in these objects, even if there are many ways to relate to them.

  Academic text (1999)

• Part of the problem is wariness with apocalyptic rhetoric, which simply fails to "get through" to the investors; another part is the seeming immovability of capitalist greed.

  Academic text (2018)

• The immovability of the statue made it a popular spot for tourists to take pictures.

• In the face of strong winds, the immovability of the ancient trees was truly impressive.

Synonyms

I

immobility

vsimmovability

4 6.3

A state of no movement or not being able to move

emphasizes that movement is impossible rather than just absent or temporary

I

inertness

vsimmovability

1 7.5

A state of not moving or not reacting to change

focuses on physical impossibility to be moved or change position

I

immovableness

vsimmovability

8.8

Being impossible to move or change

is the same meaning but expressed in a different noun form

I

immobilism

vsimmovability

• Specialized

9.6

The state of being unable to move part of the body because of injury or being held still

refers to an inability independent of specific medical or physical causes

I

immotility

vsimmovability

• Specialized

9.9

Not being able to move, especially in living things

applies generally to an impossible physical shift, not only biological movement

M

motionlessness

vsimmovability

6.0

A time when a person or thing is completely still

signals an absolute inability to be moved rather than temporary stillness

F

frozenness

vsimmovability

7.7

Being unable to move because of shock, fear, or not knowing what to do

means a physical impossibility to move rather than a psychological freezing

Antonyms

M

movability

5.7

How easy it is to pick up or put in a different place

How Movable

portability

8 3.7

movability

5.7

stability

363 3.1

immovability

7.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology