Synonyms for immobility
All synonyms
Noun
1. Fixedness
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality of not moving.
Related words
- Word family
- immobile
- Phrases
- tonic immobility
Forms
- Plural
- immobilities → fixednesses, paralyses, stagnations, inactions…
Choose the right word
We speak of insensibility of heart, immobility of countenance.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- paralysis Apathy is a paralysis of the soul, an early death.
- stagnation Algeria's economy is suffering from stagnation.
- inaction Here comes inaction and we don't know how to stop it.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| immobility | steady | |
| fixedness | rising | |
| stationariness | steady | |
| paralysis | steady | |
| stagnation | falling | |
| inaction | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 8 letters
- inaction3
- 9 letters
- paralysis4, fixedness
- 10 letters
- stagnation3
- 12 letters
- unmovability, immovability
- 13 letters
- immovableness
- 14 letters
- stationariness, motionlessness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (inaction3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- immobilité
- Italiano
- immobilità