What does immobility mean?

Definitions for immobility
im·mo·bil·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. stationariness, immobility, fixednessnoun

    remaining in place

  2. immobilitynoun

    the quality of not moving

Wiktionary

  1. immobilitynoun

    the quality of not moving

  2. immobilitynoun

    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.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Immobilitynoun

    Unmoveableness; want of motion; resistance to motion.

    Etymology: immobilité, French, from immobilis, Latin.

    The course of fluids through the vascular solids must in time harden the fibres, and abolish many of the canals; from whence driness, weakness, immobility, and debility of the vital force. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

ChatGPT

  1. immobility

    Immobility refers to the state or condition of being unable to move or being motionless. This can be due to various factors such as physical disability, illness, confinement, or because of environmental or social restraints. It can apply to people, animals, or objects.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Immobilitynoun

    the condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state

  2. Etymology: [L. immobilitas, fr. immobilis immovable; pref. im- not + mobilis movable: cf. F. immobilit. See Mobile.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Immobility

    im-mo-bil′i-ti, n. the character of being immovable.—adj. Immob′ile.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of immobility in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of immobility in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of immobility in a Sentence

  1. Hiroyasu Iso:

    We were surprised about the strength of the effect of television watching compared with the effects of advancing age, history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus, or body mass index in this study, we speculated that leg immobility during television watching had increased their risk of fatal pulmonary embolism.

  2. Ryszard Kapuściński:

    In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  3. Maria Montessori:

    The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

  4. Maria Montessori:

    The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

  5. Yann Martel, Life of Pi:

    To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

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    either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent
    A dicotyledonous
    B motile
    C commensal
    D inexpiable

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