mobility
The ability to move; capacity for movement.
Noun
- The ability to move; capacity for movement.
- I find the enduring existence of high heels both a frustrating mystery and a testament to the triumph of women’s neuroses over their mobility. - 2015 June 15, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian:
- In the late 19th and early 20th century, the festive season was also a period of great mobility before, during and after Christmas Day. But the railways kept working. - 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian...
Synonyms: mobileness
- A tendency to sudden change; mutability, changeableness.
- The ability of a military unit to move or be transported to a new position.
- The degree to which particles of a liquid or gas are in movement.
- The ability of people to move between different social levels or professional occupations.
- The difficulty of rising up the economic ladder is reflected in the decline in mobility in the United States. […] The frustration over the lack of mobility is particularly acute for those without college degrees. - 2020...
Origin
From Middle French mobilité, and its source, Latin mōbilitās (“mobility”).
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automobility dysmobility economic mobility electromobility e-mobility emobility hypermobility hypomobility intermobility macromobility micromobility mobicentric mobility kill mobility scooter palaeomobility paleomobility personal mobility device personal transportation mobility popmobility retromobility social mobility sustainable mobililty thermomobility upward mobility
Noun UK, humorous
- The mob; the common people or rabble.
- She singled you out with her eye as commander-in-chief of the mobility. - John Dryden, Don Sebastian, iv. 1
- Thus, while Morris contemptuously characterized committees of correspondence, popular assemblies, and public debate as the actions of the "mobility" (the mob), John Adams announced that the destruction of a stamp office...
Origin
Blend of mob + nobility