Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The property of being mobile or easily movable; susceptibility of motion or movement; readiness to move or change in response to impulse or slight force; hence, changeableness: as, mobility of features.
  • noun Movement; motion.
  • noun (mob-il′ i-ti). The populace; the mob: a use suggested by nobility.
  • noun In phytogeography, the inherent capacity of a plant for migration.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being mobile.
  • noun Humorous The mob; the lower classes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The condition of being mobile
  • noun countable A measure of the extent to which something is mobile
  • noun countable The movement of people or things
  • noun uncountable Ease of movement between economic conditions

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of moving freely

Etymologies

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From Latin mōbilitas ("mobility").

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