| Main Entry: | mobility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to move |
Synonyms: |
adjustability, flexibility, maneuverability, motility, movability, moveableness, portability, transportability |
| Main Entry: | locomotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement |
Synonyms: |
action, mobileness, mobility, motion, moving, progression, travel, travelling |
| Main Entry: | motion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, action |
Synonyms: |
act, advance, agitation, ambulation, body English, change, changing, direction, drift, dynamics, flow, fluctuation, flux, full swing, gesticulation, gesture, high sign, inclination, kinetics, locomotion, mobility, motility, move, oscillation, passage, passing, progress, sign, signal, stir, stirring, stream, sway, sweep, swing, tendency, travel, wave, wavering |
Antonyms: |
immobility, repose, rest, stagnation, stiffness, stillness |
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion, activity |
Synonyms: |
act, action, advance, agitation, alteration, change, changing, deed, development, displacement, dynamism, evolution, evolving, exercise, flight, flow, flux, gesture, journey, journeying, locomotion, maneuver, migration, mobility, motility, movableness, move, moving, operation, operativeness, passage, progress, progression, regression, roaming, shift, shifting, steps, stir, stirring, transferal, transit, translating, transplanting, undertaking, velocity, voyaging, wandering |
Antonyms: |
cessation, halt, inaction, inactivity, pause, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | plasticity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pliancy |
Synonyms: |
elasticity, flexibility, malleability, mobility, resilience |
| Main Entry: | preparedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | readiness |
Synonyms: |
alertness, mobility, preparation, willingness, zeal |
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
brachiating, catabatic, circumambient, coxinutant, cursorial, dextrosinistral, digitigrade, drawing, erratic, feirie, formicating, gestic, glad, in motion, irpe, irreptitious, laterigrade, left, mercurial, mobile, motile, motive, motory, movable, moving, murgeoning, nomadic, paradromic, pedestrious, pinnigrade, proal, projectile, pronograde, propelled, propelling, propulsive, recoiling, rectigrade, reptant, restless, shanks', sinistrodextral, subsultive, sure, transitional, unquiet, vermigrade, viaggiatory, wandle
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| Concept: | [Successive change of place] Motion. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
motion, movement, move; going; unrest., stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis., step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey; voyage; transit., restlessness (changeableness); mobility; movableness, motive power; laws of motion; mobilization.
-verbs
be in motion; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;., put in motion, set in motion; move; impel; propel; render movable, mobilize.
-adjectives
moving; in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless (changeable); nomadic; erratic.
-adverbs
under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.
-phrases
eppur si muove [Galileo]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
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Antonyms: |
quiescence |
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