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Immobility

The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.

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Immovability 76% connected

The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.

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Immovableness 76% connected

Quality of being immovable.

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Inertness 76% connected

Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Stillness 76% connected

The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.

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Immobile 74% connected

Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable.

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Immobile 74% connected

Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable.

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Fixedness 92% connected

The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.

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Stationariness 92% connected

The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.

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Mobility 94% connected

The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.

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Mobility 94% connected

The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.

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Ability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

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Accuracy noun · 86% connection

(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much grea…

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Adequacy noun · 86% connection

the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"

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Air noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Appearance noun · 86% connection

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

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Aridity noun · 86% connection

the quality of yielding nothing of value

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Asset noun · 86% connection

a useful or valuable quality

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Atmosphere noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Attraction noun · 86% connection

the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"

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Aura noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Bad noun · 86% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Badness noun · 86% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Barrenness noun · 86% connection

the quality of yielding nothing of value

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Believability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Brachycephalism noun · 86% connection

the quality of being brachycephalic

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Brachycephaly noun · 86% connection

the quality of being brachycephalic

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Credibility noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Credibleness noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Back adverb · 78% connection

To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left b…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, immobile, fixedness, place.
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Bed verb · 78% connection

To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a be…

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Bond noun · 78% connection

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

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Booly noun · 78% connection

A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like…

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Consign verb · 78% connection

To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, wi…

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Consistent adjective · 78% connection

Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.

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Constancy noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God…

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Conveyance noun · 78% connection

The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is…

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Displace verb · 78% connection

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in…

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Disposal noun · 78% connection

Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition…

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Establish adjective · 78% connection

To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the e…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, immobile, fixedness, place.
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Fastness adjective · 78% connection

The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.

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