immobility

im·mo·bile

 (ĭ-mō′bəl, -bēl′, -bīl′)

adj.

1. Immovable; fixed: an immobile rock formation.

2. Not moving; motionless: The patient in the coma was immobile.

3. Not very mobile or agile; capable of moving only slowly: an immobile quarterback.

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im′mo·bil′i·ty (-bĭl′ĭ-tē) n.

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Immobility

 

See Also: DEATH, LYING, POSTURE, SITTING STANDING

1. (I am) comatose like a mouse in the sun —Janet Flanner

   The simile was prompted by the writer’s being heavily medicated.

2. Fixed as the garden in a wallpaper mural —Anon
3. Frozen like dogs waiting at night for a bitch in heat —Bertold Brecht
4. Immobile as a heavily sprayed coiffure —Elyse Sommer
5. Immobile as despair —Yvor Winters
6. (Lay,) immobile, like something caught, an ungainly fish —Daphne Merkin
7. Immobilized like fishes caught in a net —Dominique Lapierre
8. Immovable, emotionless, a jade Buddha serenely contemplating some quintessential episode of a TV police show —T. Coraghessan Boyle
9. (The corpse still) lay like a smashed fly —G. K. Chesterton
10. Lay motionless, as if felled by an axe —Stefan Zweig
11. Lifeless as a string of dead fish —G. K. Chesterton
12. Motionless as a dog thrown into the street —Émile Zola
13. (Clouds … ) motionless as a ledge of rock —Willa Cather
14. Motionless as an idol and as grim —John Greenleaf Whittier
15. (Remained standing in the same place,) motionless as if he were a prisoner —Bertold Brecht
16. Motionless, in an agony of inertia, like a machine that is without power —D. H. Lawrence
17. Motionless, like a man in a nightmare —G. K. Chesterton
18. (This play has) no more action than a snake has hips —Anon
19. Remained rooted in place like an oak —Charles Johnson
20. Sat as still as a tree —Speer Morgan
21. Sat like a marble man —Margaret Millar
22. Sat … motionless as a drowsing man —Beryl Markham
23. Sat there like a potted plant —Delmore Schwartz
24. Sat through it all [revolution] like a slug —Rita Mae Brown
25. Sits impassive, like Rodin’s Penseur —Frank Swinnerton
26. (I’d rather) sit still, like the pilot light inside the gas —Saul Bellow
27. Standing … like a hydrant —Rosellen Brown
28. Standing there like a glee-club president in granite —Erich Maria Remarque
29. Standing motionless as if turned to stone —Ivan Turgenev
30. Standing stock still … like George Segal plaster figures —Paul Kuttner
31. Standing there rigid as the Venus de Milo —T. Coraghessan Boyle

    In Boyle’s story, The Descent of Man, the character voicing this simile speaks in dialect, using ‘de’ and ‘dere’ instead of ‘there’ and ‘the’ as used here.

32. Stand motionless as a pillar of the colonial portico of a mansion in a Kentucky prohibition town —O.Henry
33. Stand motionless … as though trying to make myself blend with the dark wood and become invisible —William Faulkner
34. Stand perfectly still, like a scarecrow —Walter De La Mare
35. Stand stone still —William Shakespeare

    The simile from The Life and Death of King John completes this statement: “I will not struggle; I will …”

36. Statue-like repose —James Aldrich

    The simile from a poem entitled A Death-Bed reads as follows in its full context: “Her suffering ended with the day; yet lived she at its close, and breathed the long, long night away in statue-like repose.”

37. Still as a child in its first loneliness —Theodore Roethke
38. Still as a cocoon on a branch —Marge Piercy
39. Still as a folded bat —Eudora Welty
40. (Became) still as a hare caught in the light of a torch —R. Wright Campbell
41. Still as a little hare in the hollow of a furrow —Colette
42. (Sitting as) still as a lizard on a stone —Mary Stewart
43. Still as a picture —John Greenleaf Whittier
44. Still as a pillar —Reynolds Price
45. Still as a post —Fannie Stearns Gifford

    Other similes to express the same idea are to “Sit still as a fence post” and “To stand like an iron post.”

46. Still as a snapshot —Anne Sexton
47. Still as a turtle on a log which is stuck in the mud near some willows —Elizabeth Spencer
48. Still as bushes —Helen Hudson
49. (The air was) still as death —MacDonald Harris
50. (The next morning was cold and clear and) still as held breath —John Yount
51. (Ray lay) still as ice —Wilbur Daniel Steele
52. Still as if a block of ice had formed around him —William Mcllvanney
53. Still as a mummy in a case —Henry James
54. Still as sleeping princesses —Joyce Cary
55. Still as the wind’s center —Theodore Roethke
56. Stood frozen like some sort of Mexican stone idol —Robert Silverberg
57. Stood still, petrified like the pillar of salt —Victor Hugo
58. Stood there rooted like a plant —Ellen Glasgow
59. They seemed [tired soldiers] as if they were of stone, without the strength to smile, or to swear —Boris Pasternak

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	immobility - remaining in place fixedness, stationariness lifelessness, motionlessness, stillness - a state of no motion or movement; "the utter motionlessness of a marble statue" rootage - fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
	2.	immobility - the quality of not moving quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare immotility - lacking an ability to move inertness - immobility by virtue of being inert immovability, immovableness - not capable of being moved or rearranged mobility - the quality of moving freely

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immobility

noun stillness, firmness, steadiness, stability, fixity, inertness, immovability, motionlessness, absence of movement the rigid immobility of his shoulders

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Translations

عَدَم الحَرَكَه

nehybnost

immobilitetubevægelighed

Unbeweglichkeit

ακινησία

immobilitérepos

rögzítettség

kyrrstaîa, hreyfingarleysi

immobilit...immobilità

ubevegelighet

repouso

hareketsizlikkımıldayamama

固定静止

immobility

[ˌɪməʊˈbɪlɪtɪ] N → inmovilidad f

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immobility

[ˌɪməʊˈbɪlɪti] n → immobilité f

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immobility

n (= inability to move) (through injury etc) → Unbeweglichkeit f, → Bewegungslosigkeit f; (through lack of transport) → Immobilität f

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immobility

[ˌɪməʊˈbɪlɪtɪ] n → immobilità

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immobile

(iˈməubail) adjective

1. not able to move or be moved. His leg was put in plaster and he was immobile for several weeks. onbeweeglik غَير قادِر على الحَرَكَه неподвижен imóvel nepohyblivý unbeweglich ubevægelig; immobil ακίνητος, ακινητοποιημένος inmóvil liikumisvõimetu بی حرکت liikuntakyvytön immobile, immobilisé לֹא נַייָד स्थिर nepokretan megmozdíthatatlan tidak bisa digerakkan óbifanlegur, óhreyfanlegur immobile 動けない 움직일 수 없는 negalintis vaikščioti/judėti nekustīgs tidak dapat bergerak onbeweeglijkubevegeligunieruchomiony ولاړ، نه خوځېدونكى، بې حركته imóvel imobil; imobilizat неподвижный nepohyblivý negiben nepokretan orörlig, orubblig ที่ไม่สามารถเคลื่อนที่ได้ hareketsiz, sabit 動彈不得的 нерухомий ساکن bất động 不能动的，不能移动的

2. not moving; motionless. He crouched there immobile until they had gone. onbeweeglik ساكِن، غَيْر مُتَحَرِّك неподвижен imóvel nehybný bewegungslos ubevægelig ακίνητοςinmóvil liikumatu ثابت liikkumaton immobileנייח सुस्थिर nepomičan mozdulatlan tidak bergerak hreyfingarlaus, grafkyrr immobile 静止した 움직이지 않는 nejudantis nekustīgs tidak bergerak roerloosubevegelig, rolig bez ruchu ثابت imóvel nemişcat неподвижный nehybný negiben nepomičan orörlig ซึ่งไม่เคลื่อนไหว hareketsiz, kımıldamayan 不動的，靜止的 нерухомий; нерухливий بے حرکت không nhúc nhích 不活动的，静止的

ˌimmoˈbility (-ˈbi-) noun

onbeweeglikheid عَدَم الحَرَكَه неподвижност imobilidade nehybnost die Unbeweglichkeit ubevægelighed; immobilitet ακινησίαinmovilidad liikumatus عدم تحرک liikuntakyvyttömyys immobilité חוֹסֶר נַייָדוּת निश्चलता nepokretnost, nepomičnost rögzítettség kelumpuhan kyrrstaða, hreyfingarleysi immobilità 静止 부동성 nejudamumas nekustīgums tidak bergerak-gerak onbeweeglijkheidubevegelighet bezruch بې حركتى imobilidade imobilitate; ne­miş­care неподвижность nehybnosť negibnost nepomičnost orörlighet การไม่สามารถเคลื่อนที่ได้ hareketsizlik, kımıldayamama 無法行動 нерухомість; нерухливість حرکت ناپزیری sự bất động 固定，静止

imˈmobilize, imˈmobilise (-bi-) verb

to make immobile. He immobilized the car by removing part of the engine. onbeweeglik maak يَمْنَع عن الحَرَكَه обездвижвам imobilizar učinit nepojízdným bewegungsunfähig machen gøre ubevægelig ακινητοποιώinmovilizar liikumisvõimetuks tegema از حرکت بازداشتن tehdä liikuntakyvyttömäksi immobiliser לְשַׁתֵק अचल करना, गतिहीन कर देना imobilizirati, spriječiti pokretanje rögzít, megerősít, mozdíthatatlanná tesz melumpuhkan gera óhreyfanlegan/óvirkan; stöðva immobilizzare 動けなくする 움직이지 않게 하다 padaryti nejudamą, atimti galimybę judėti padarīt nekustīgu tidak menggerakkan onbeweeglijk maken gjøre ubevegelig, stoppeunieruchomić نه خوځېدونكى imobilizar a imobiliza делать неподвижным urobiť nepojazdným imobilizirati učiniti nepokretnim göra orörlig, göra okörbar ทำให้เคลื่อนที่ไม่ได้ hareket edemez hale getirmek 使動彈不得 позбавляти рухливості ساکت کردینا làm cho bất động 使不动

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im·mo·bil·i·ty

n. inmovilidad, sin movimiento.

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