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immobility

immobility noun: the quality of not moving.

Noun

immobility (countable and uncountable, plural immobilities)

  1. The quality of not moving.
    • Common to all Regions were frozen points, which were troublesome not only because of immobility, but because failure to close prevented operation of detector circuits.1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158
    • See how he still covers his face with his hands when he sees me and his immobility and fixed stare are often evident.2003, Alessandra Piontelli, From Fetus to Child: An Observational and Psychoanalytic Study, page 87
  2. The state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved.
    • Immobility is a big problem for many people who can't afford a car.
    Synonyms:
    unmovability

immobility meaning in Hindi and Tamil

immobility in Hindi

the quality of not moving
निष्क्रियता niṣkriytā
the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved
निष्क्रियता niṣkriytā

immobility in Tamil

நகர இயலாநிலை, அசையா, அசைவற்றநிலை, அசைவிலா

Examples of immobility in a sentence

  • A patient with venistasis might be more vulnerable to the formation of blood clots due to long periods of immobility such as when driving for long distances.
  • "It has," said Ford with a similar degree of occular immobility.
  • Her thin hands were lying on her lap, her facial immobility had in it something monachal.

All 13 example sentences with immobility

Synonyms of immobility

Antonyms

Forms of immobility

pluralimmobilities

Origin of immobility

From Middle French immobilité, equivalent to immobile + -ity.

Words formed from immobility

Questions about immobility

What does immobility mean?
Immobility means the quality of not moving.
What is immobility in Hindi?
Immobility in Hindi is निष्क्रियता (niṣkriytā). See Immobility meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is immobility?
Immobility is a noun.
What is the plural of immobility?
The plural of immobility is immobilities.

Words near immobility in the dictionary

  1. immobilises
  2. immobilising
  3. immobilism
  4. immobilisms
  5. immobilities
  6. immobility
  7. immobilization
  8. immobilizations
  9. immobilize
  10. immobilized
  11. immobilizer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: immobility (page history and authors); immobility (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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