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Definition of Motionlessness
1. Noun. A state of no motion or movement. "The utter motionlessness of a marble statue"
Generic synonyms: State
Specialized synonyms: Fixedness, Immobility, Stationariness
Derivative terms: Lifeless, Lifeless, Motionless, Still, Still, Still
Antonyms: Motion
Definition of Motionlessness
1. Noun. The property of being motionless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Motionlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Motionlessness
Literary usage of Motionlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yoga-system of Patañjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man : an Interpretation by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra (1914)
"... he should perform constraint upon that Thus constraint which leads to the
cessation of hunger and of thirst, and which leads to motionlessness, ..."
2. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1859)
"If the motionlessness of the hind legs, when the animal crawled, is a proof that
voluntary power was destroyed in those legs, the motionlessness of the fore ..."
3. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"Such was its maintenance of this condition, such its conviction, apparently, that
its salvation depended on its motionlessness, ' that it allowed me to pick ..."
4. Statics by Algebraic and Graphic Methods: Intended Primarily for Students of by Lewis Jerome Johnson (1903)
"... motionlessness, means only motionlessness with regard to a definite body of
reference, which in our work will usually be understood to be the earth. ..."
5. Statistics by Algebraic and Graphic Methods: Intended Primarily for Students by Lewis Jerome Johnson (1908)
"Rest, then, far from meaning absolute motionlessness, means only motionlessness
with regard to a definite body of reference, which in our work will usually ..."
6. The Theosophical Quarterly by Theosophical Society in America (1919)
"tr- The translation being: "Nought was, but motionlessness and silence, in the
darkness, in the night. Alone, the Creator, the Moulder, the Dominator, ..."