mobility

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.

The mob; the lower classes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

movement motion flexibility agility adaptability fluidity versatility maneuverability ability to move move action activity flow moto moving
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Antonyms

immobility settlement endurance durability fixing paralysis
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Hypernyms

quality

Hyponyms

locomotion motility motivity restlessness movableness movability

Related terms

move mobile mobilization mobilize

Phrases with the word

high mobility vehicle high mobility wheeled vehicle tongue mobility disorder limited mobility on one side mobility creation personal transportation mobility

Examples

For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre. Harriet Harman

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people. Harriet Harman

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion. Dan Simmons

You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions. Thomas Piketty

The immobile had been changed to mobility. Albert Gleizes

Close letter words and terms

mobilism mobilist mobilistic mobility creation mobility generation mobility initiation