immovabilityn.
/ɪmuːvəˈbɪlɪti/ The quality or condition of being immovable; immovableness.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state or quality of being immovable
immovabilityc1374
unmovablenessc1384
unmovabletya1400
unmobletya1425
immovableness1617
movelessness1667
stuckness1960
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) v. pr. vi. 134 So as it ne may nat countrefeten it..for the inmoeuablete þat is to seyn þat is in the eternite of god.
1739 E. Carter tr. F. Algarotti Sir I. Newton's Philos. Explain'd II. 201 Our Speculations..to prove the Immoveability of the Sun.
1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 75 56 A Tribunal..whose members..enjoy..immovability from office.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 343 Modern astronomical observation..has..exploded the idea of the immovability of the stars.
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