noun
Meaning 1
The quality of not moving.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
immobility
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Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
The state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Immobility is a big problem for many people who can't afford a car.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unmovability
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the quality of not moving
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: mobility
Broader terms: quality
Narrower terms: immotility, inertness, immovability, immovableness
noun
Meaning 4
remaining in place
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stationariness, fixedness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: motionlessness, stillness, lifelessness
Narrower terms: rootage
History
Etymology
From Middle French immobilité, equivalent to immobile + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: неподвижност (nepodvižnost) — the quality of not moving
- Catalan: immobilitat — the quality of not moving
- Finnish: liikkumattomuus — the quality of not moving
- Finnish: paikallaanolo — the quality of not moving
- French: immobilité — the quality of not moving
- Galician: inmobilidade — the quality of not moving
- Georgian: უძრაობა (uʒraoba) — the quality of not moving
- German: Immobilität — the quality of not moving
- Greek: ακινησία (akinisía) — the quality of not moving
- Hindi: निष्क्रियता (niṣkriytā) — the quality of not moving
- Italian: immobilità — the quality of not moving
- Kazakh: қимылсыздық (qimylsyzdyq) — the quality of not moving
- Kyrgyz: кыймылсыздык (kıymılsızdık) — the quality of not moving
- Polish: bezruch — the quality of not moving
- Portuguese: imobilidade — the quality of not moving
- Russian: неподви́жность (nepodvížnostʹ) — the quality of not moving
- Slovak: nehybnosť — the quality of not moving
- Spanish: inmovilidad — the quality of not moving
- Catalan: immobilitat — the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved
- Finnish: liikuntakyvyttömyys — the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved
- Galician: imobilidade — the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved
- German: Immobilität — the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved
- Hindi: निष्क्रियता (niṣkriytā) — the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved
- Italian: immobilità — the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved
- Portuguese: imobilidade — the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved
- Slovak: imobilita — the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved
- Spanish: inmovilidad — the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved
- Swedish: orörlighet — the state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved