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immovableness

immovableness noun: physically so.

Noun

immovableness (uncountable)

  1. Physically so.
    • That resemblance to an immense wave taking the precipice at one bound, bearing trees on its breast, fringed with the bushes, and winding out the long ivy sprays, which exhibit in their delicate tracery the form of the rigid glassy billow; that mere semblance of movement amidst the stillness and...1876, Emile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, The Man-Wolf and Other Tales
    • A gentle, easy movement, as regular as that by which a vessel plunges beneath the waves, had succeeded to the immovableness of the bed.1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne
    Synonyms:
    immobility
  2. Psychologically so, in a stubborn way.
    • Near-synonyms: intransigence, stubbornness
  3. Psychologically so, in an apathetic way.
    • Near-synonym: impassivity
    Synonyms:
    impassivity

Synonyms of immovableness

Origin of immovableness

From immovable + -ness.

Questions about immovableness

What does immovableness mean?
Immovableness means physically so.
What part of speech is immovableness?
Immovableness is a noun.

Words near immovableness in the dictionary

  1. immovabilities
  2. immovability
  3. immovable
  4. immovable properties
  5. immovable property
  6. immovableness
  7. immovables
  8. immovably
  9. immoveable
  10. immoveables
  11. immoveably

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