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Definition of Immovability
1. Noun. Not capable of being moved or rearranged.
Generic synonyms: Immobility
Specialized synonyms: Tautness, Tightness, Fastness, Fixedness, Fixity, Fixture, Secureness, Firmness, Steadiness
Derivative terms: Immovable, Immovable
Antonyms: Movability, Movableness
Definition of Immovability
1. n. The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.
Definition of Immovability
1. Noun. the state of being immovable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immovability
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immovability
Literary usage of Immovability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"... and when immovability of the tumour, and redness of the skin over it evince
that adhesion has taken place between the peritoneal coat of the bladder and ..."
2. Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as Representative Arts; an Essay in by George Lansing Raymond (1895)
"... upon Methods of Expressing Thought and Emotion through the Use of the Human
Body—Size as Representing Heaviness, Strength, immovability, Substantiality, ..."
3. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer (1853)
"And those downcast looks, that immovability—how can it be ?" But now I heard
Rebecca whisper to her husband, " What is amiss with Channing ? ..."
4. Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as Representative Arts: An Essay in by George Lansing Raymond (1895)
"... Strength, immovability, Substantiality, or the Opposite — As Representing the
Important, Influential, Dignified, or the Opposite — The Representations ..."
5. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Translation of the Original by James Brown Scott (1920)
"... and was carefully examined, whether a provision should not be inserted in the
project guaranteeing the immovability of the judges. ..."
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