Definitions
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- n. The property of being motionless.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a state of no motion or movement
Etymologies
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Examples
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I like to use a box call and some loud yelping for distance, then a mouth diaphragm call for hands-free motionlessness when they get closer.
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There are the synaptic flashes which launch the patients' awakenings and never far behind the dissolutions into motionlessness and silence.
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In doing so, he hoped to break the monotony, the blurring of night and day, the feeling of motionlessness he had in being confined to the same bed and the same room.
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I must confess that I found the unnatural quiet and apparent motionlessness palpably disturbing, almost to the point of vertigo; it was as though the whole planet had stopped moving, and now waited in hushed anticipation for some great and climactic event.
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The primary neocon deception was to lull us into a state of motionlessness through fear and intimidation, and they have succeeded in this objective splendidly.
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She seemed to fight him with her cramped motionlessness.
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The silence and motionlessness of the whole added to its awfulness.
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The water is always moving slightly through the half-full tunnels but in those deep places there is a sense of stillness, motionlessness ... a feeling that there is something waiting in the dark liquid.
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He froze into motionlessness, and the blood-lust in his black eyes gave way to a look of startled recognition.
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And the perfume in all the air that might be heaven, and the unutterable stillness, save for strange bright birds and flocks of parrots, and the motionlessness, save for a stream and butterflies and some small brown bees.
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