stationary
adjective
standing still; not moving.
stationariness
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a word derived from
stationary.
Example Sentences
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The fact of keeping his men at quarters also justifies the conclusion that he was thus uncertain about Sampson, for the stationariness of the Flying Squadron would be known at Martinique.
From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
The world of little things therein gazed at her in helpless stationariness, as though they had tried and been unable to make any progress without her presence.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
What the mind instinctively dislikes is stationariness; and an existence in which there was nothing to escape from, nothing more to hope for, to learn, to desire, would be frankly unendurable.
From Escape, and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
It would be hard to find better examples of stationariness, as we ordinarily look at things.
If a similar change should befall the nations of Europe, it will not be in exactly the same shape: the despotism of custom with which these nations are threatened is not precisely stationariness.
From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
