motionlessness
- a word derived from motionless.
Example Sentences
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After a brief period of motionlessness, I detected my heartbeat.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
The experience of Cunningham motionlessness, it should be said, is nothing like that of Cage’s silence.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2013
The ranking round is only a sifting process, but confidence in this strange world of muscular motionlessness is more important than physical wellbeing, as the blurred-of-vision Im may prove.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
And doctors have learned to recognize certain infant sounds, grimaces and motionlessness as signs of suffering.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lamps were round hazy balls of light frozen into motionlessness, anchored in space and kept from blowing away in the icy wind by black steel posts.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
