mobility

/moʊˈbɪlədi/

/məʊˈbɪlɪti/

Mobility is the ability to move freely. If your basketball injury causes you to lose mobility in your knee, that means you can’t move it very well.

Mobility often refers to whether you can move an injured body part, like a joint or a limb, but it can also describe movement in general. If you have great mobility on the tennis court, that means you move freely and easily, running down shots with ease. Mobility can also describe movement between different social or economic levels. Your fancy new job may offer opportunities for upward mobility.

Definitions of mobility

1. noun

   the quality of moving freely
   antonyms:

   immobility

   the quality of not moving

   types:

   locomotion, motive power, motivity

   the power or ability to move

   motility

   ability to move spontaneously and independently

   movability, movableness

   the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged

   maneuverability, manoeuvrability

   the quality of being maneuverable

   manipulability

   the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands

   restlessness

   the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active

   looseness, play

   movement or space for movement

   weatherliness

   (of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind)

   ricketiness, unsteadiness

   the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place

   portability

   the quality of being light enough to be carried

   looseness

   the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints

   type of:

   quality

   an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone