immobility

/ˌɪmoʊˈbɪlɪti/

Other forms: immobilities

Immobility is the state of not being able to move around. If you fall out of a tree and break your arms and legs, then you will have to put up with months of immobility while your bones heal.

Immobility could mean the condition of not being able to move, like that poor mouse stuck in a glue trap whose immobility will lead to its starvation. Immobility can also just mean the state of not moving. If you are entranced by a beautiful sunset, you might stand with quiet immobility while watching the sky.

Definitions of immobility

1. noun

   the quality of not moving
   antonyms:

   mobility

   the quality of moving freely

   types:

   immotility

   lacking an ability to move

   inertness

   immobility by virtue of being inert

   immovability, immovableness

   not capable of being moved or rearranged

   tautness, tightness

   lack of movement or room for movement

   fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness

   the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

   firmness, steadiness

   the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place

   type of:

   quality

   an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
2. noun

   remaining in place
   synonyms: fixedness, stationariness

   types:

   rootage

   fixedness by or as if by roots

   type of:

   lifelessness, motionlessness, stillness

   a state of no motion or movement