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movelessness

  • a word derived from moveless.
    moveless
    adjective
    lacking movement.

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As he broke from his intense movelessness and looked at us and came slowly towards us, I felt an awe of him.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Here in the heart of movelessness a little space.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

Movelessness hence is characteristic of the intensely meditating person also, and such movelessness is to be realised in the sitting posture only.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut

Had Mrs. Gammit stirred a muscle, he would have marked her; but in her movelessness her head and hand passed for some harmless natural phenomenon.

From The Backwoodsmen by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

So motionless he crouched that only death might counterpart his movelessness.

From Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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