immobility
Absence of movement
Immobility is the state of not moving or being unable to move.
Physical immobility may result from injury, illness, or restraint: The patient's immobility after surgery increased the risk of blood clots.
Figurative immobility describes stagnation or paralysis—an organization's immobility in the face of change, or the immobility of someone frozen by indecision.
Lacking all movement
- stationaryNot in motion
- standstillTotal cessation of movement
- restCessation of activity
- pauseTemporary cessation of activity
halt · freeze · static · inactivity · quiescence · repose · stagnation · suspended
Partial loss of movement
- quadriplegiaParalysis below the neck
- hemiplegiaOne-sided bodily paralysis
- paraplegiaLower body immobility
- locked-inFixed and unchangeable
neuropathy · atrophy · spasticity · flaccidity · paralyzed · crippled · incapacitated · disabled
Not easily bent
- inflexibleUnable to bend
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- petrifiedSolidified or fear-paralyzed
ossified · hardened · fixed · solid · unbending · seized · locked · stuck
motionless
Lacking all movement
- stationaryNot in motion
- standstillTotal cessation of movement
- restCessation of activity
pause · halt · freeze · static · inactivity · quiescence · repose · stagnation · suspended · stopped
paresis
Partial loss of movement
- quadriplegiaParalysis below the neck
- hemiplegiaOne-sided bodily paralysis
- paraplegiaLower body immobility
locked-in · neuropathy · atrophy · spasticity · flaccidity · paralyzed · crippled · incapacitated · disabled · bedridden
stiff
Not easily bent
- inflexibleUnable to bend
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
petrified · ossified · hardened · fixed · solid · unbending · seized · locked · stuck · stiffened
sedentary
Characterized by much sitting
languishing · stagnant · dormant · idle · listless · torpid · lethargic · vegetating · lounging · slothful
anchored
Fixed securely in position
bound · shackled · strapped · pinned · chained · moored · tied · constrained · restrained · fettered
- impairmentsimpairment, disability, paralysis, incapacity, blindness
- inactioninaction, passivity, doing nothing, stillness, stasis
- stagnationstagnation, standstill, stasis, deadlock, stalemate
- stillnessstillness, motionless, motionlessness, unmoving, still
- immobilityparalysis, stuck, trapped, confinement, restraint
- inactivityinactivity, sitting, inactive, idleness, idle
immobilitymotion
Change in position
movement · mobility · locomotion · activity · action
immobilityflexibility
Ability to adapt easily
adaptability · fluidity · agility · nimbleness · suppleness
immobilitymobility
Capacity for movement
motility · locomotion · freedom of movement · portability · maneuverability
immobilize, immobilized, immobilization, immobilizing, immobilizer