motility

noun

Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite

Word type: noun; verb; adjective; adverb

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Senses

Sense 1 noun

ability to move spontaneously and independently

Types & categories

mobility hypernym

Related & opposite

immotility antonym
motile derivation

Sense 2 noun

a change of position that does not entail a change of location

the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise

Related & opposite

move derivation

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Sense	Relation	Group	Word
1	antonym	Related & opposite	immotility
1	derivation	Related & opposite	motile
1	hypernym	Types & categories	mobility
2	derivation	Related & opposite	move
2	hypernym	Types & categories	change
2	hyponym	Types & categories	abduction
2	hyponym	Types & categories	adduction
2	hyponym	Types & categories	agitation
2	hyponym	Types & categories	body English
2	hyponym	Types & categories	circumduction
2	hyponym	Types & categories	disturbance
2	hyponym	Types & categories	fetal movement
2	hyponym	Types & categories	flit
2	hyponym	Types & categories	gesture
2	hyponym	Types & categories	headshake
2	hyponym	Types & categories	inclining
2	hyponym	Types & categories	everting
2	hyponym	Types & categories	upending
2	hyponym	Types & categories	jerking
2	hyponym	Types & categories	kicking
2	hyponym	Types & categories	kneel
2	hyponym	Types & categories	pitching
2	hyponym	Types & categories	eye movement
2	hyponym	Types & categories	opening
2	hyponym	Types & categories	prostration
2	hyponym	Types & categories	reaching
2	hyponym	Types & categories	reciprocation
2	hyponym	Types & categories	reclining
2	hyponym	Types & categories	retraction
2	hyponym	Types & categories	retroflection
2	hyponym	Types & categories	rotation
2	hyponym	Types & categories	closing
2	hyponym	Types & categories	sitting
2	hyponym	Types & categories	sitting
2	hyponym	Types & categories	snap
2	hyponym	Types & categories	squatting
2	hyponym	Types & categories	sweep
2	hyponym	Types & categories	toss
2	hyponym	Types & categories	vibration
2	hyponym	Types & categories	wave
2	hyponym	Types & categories	flutter
2	hyponym	Types & categories	standing
2	hyponym	Types & categories	straddle
2	hyponym	Types & categories	stroke
2	hyponym	Types & categories	wiggle
2	hyponym	Types & categories	eurythmy