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Definition of Immovableness
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 Immovableness
1. n. Quality of being immovable.
Definition of Immovableness
1. Noun. The quality of being immovable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immovableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immovableness
Literary usage of Immovableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Torrington, Connecticut: From Its First Settlement in 1737, with by Samuel Orcutt (1878)
"The very marked yet kind immovableness of the young man's face, on seeing father's
defeat, father's own look, and the position of people and things in ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"You conquer them by superior patience and immovableness; not by quickness, but
by slowness; not by heat, but by coldness. You see only a pair of heels ..."
3. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883)
"That which externally seemed will and immovableness was willingness and
self-annihilation. Could Shakspeare give a theory of Shakspeare? ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"... murder being a deed of darkness, and a deed tending to anything but immovableness
in those enacting it. ANNUAL ELECTIONS IN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETIES. ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority—demanding
not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, ..."
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