1.
[syn: stationariness, immobility, fixedness]
2. the quality of not moving;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Immobility \Im`mo*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. immobilitas, fr. immobilis
immovable; pref. im- not + mobilis movable: cf. F.
immobilit['e]. See Mobile.]
The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in
place or state.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
immobility
n 1: remaining in place [syn: stationariness, immobility,
fixedness]
2: the quality of not moving [ant: mobility]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "immobility":
a wise passiveness, abidingness, changelessness, constancy,
contemplation, contemplative life, do-nothing policy,
do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, durability, durableness,
duration, endurance, firmness, fixation, fixedness, fixity,
frozenness, hardening, hibernation, idleness, immobilization,
immovability, immovableness, immutability, inaction, inactiveness,
inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, inextricability,
inflexibility, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy,
irremovability, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism,
lastingness, long standing, lull, meditation, motionlessness,
neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement,
nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance,
passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity,
permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency,
policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, rigidity, solidity,
stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standing, standpattism, stasis,
steadfastness, suspension, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness,
underactivity, unmovability, unyieldingness, vegetation,
vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
watching and waiting