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MOVABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does movability mean? 

MOVABILITY (noun)
  The noun MOVABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearrangedplay

  Familiarity information: MOVABILITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOVABILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

movability; movableness

Hypernyms ("movability" is a kind of...):

mobility (the quality of moving freely)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "movability"):

looseness; play (movement or space for movement)

ricketiness; unsteadiness (the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place)

portability (the quality of being light enough to be carried)

looseness (the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints)

Antonym:

immovability (not capable of being moved or rearranged)

Derivation:

movable (capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another)


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