Meanings
- The quality of being immovable.
- uncountablePhysically so.
A gentle, easy movement, as regular as that by which a vessel plunges beneath the waves, had succeeded to the immovableness of the bed.
1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne1 more example
That resemblance to an immense wave taking the precipice at one bound, bearing trees on its breast, fringed with the bushes, and winding out the long ivy sprays, which exhibit in their delicate tracery the form of the rigid glassy billow; that mere semblance of movement amidst the stillness and immovableness of death, and the presence of those two speechless creatures pursuing their ghastly work with automatic precision, added to the terror with which I already trembled.
1876, Emile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, The Man-Wolf and Other TalesSynonyms: immobility
- uncountablePsychologically so, in a stubborn way.
Near-synonyms: intransigence, stubbornness
Synonyms: intransigence, stubbornness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounPhysically so.
nounPsychologically so, in a stubborn way.
nounPsychologically so, in an apathetic way.
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Origin
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