motility [moht-l, moh-til] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
feeling [fee-ling]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sensation, especially of touch
Synonyms: activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitability, excitation, excitement, feel, innervation, motility, motor response, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, receptivity, reflex, responsiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, tactility, tangibility, titillation
Antonyms: insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness
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
Example Sentences
  • They're not afraid of variety in their voices, and motility in their faces.
  • Esophageal neuromuscular function and motility disorders.
Related Words
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
Concept Thesaurus
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.
Antonyms: quiescence
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