stationarinessn.
/ˈsteɪʃn̩rɪnᵻs/, /ˈsteɪʃən(ə)rɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛrinᵻs/ The quality or condition of being stationary; lack of motion or change; stability.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > condition of remaining in one place
fixure1603
stability1625
fixedness1647
lying1683
stationariness1727
fixation1894
staticness1940
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Stationariness, Settledness in a Place.
1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. v. 231 All..depended upon the perennial stationariness of his understanding.
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iii. ii. 378 On this happiness, or degree of misery, depends principally the increase, stationariness, or decrease, of population.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 9 When once settled in that city, St. James, with the natural stationariness of the Oriental, seems never to have left it.
1903 M. Bateson Mediaeval Eng. xi. 254 There is much evidence pointing to stationariness in agriculture, the slowest of the arts to set itself in new courses.
1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils xxxiv. 348 Her whole time-scheme was dislocated, her sense of stationariness deserted her.
2008 S. Dennis Christmas Island iv. 157 An inhibited desire to keep moving,..an imposed stationariness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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