What's the difference between immovable and immovableness?
Immovable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin.
(a.) Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remain immovable.
(a.) Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.
(a.) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n.
(n.) That which can not be moved.
(n.) Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(2) Right now, with Kabila already 10 years in power and looking immovable, despotism seems to have democracy on the ropes.
(3) There were two principles on which James was immoveable: that the intricacy of a plot could never make up for poor writing ("I find with my own reading, that it doesn't matter how exciting a book is: if it's badly written one just can't be bothered with it.
(4) The procedure of resecting the heads of the metatarsal bones according to Lelièvre seems to be recommendable in order to prevent immovability, especially in case of advanced inflammable alterations of the joints in the forefoot.
(5) Though it "was inevitable that Spain would face lean years as it learned to live within its means", Krugman argued, "Germany's immovability was an important contributor to Spain's pain".
(6) As I said at the end, I’d ideally like some Frankenstein-esque combination of her willingness to stare into the void with JC’s immovable principles.
(7) For this purpose a moulded jacket was designed which could hold the inhaler in an immovable position during actuation.
(8) [It] provokes the Greek people,” he said on Friday, insisting that the loan effectively ended the British Museum’s argument that the Greek antiquities were immovable.
(9) One day the British were there, immovable, complete masters; next day, the Japanese, whom we derided, mocked as short, stunted people with short-sighted squint eyes.” After the second world war when the British were trying to reestablish control: “... the old mechanisms had gone and the old habits of obedience and respect (for the British) had also gone because people had seen them run away (from the Japanese) ... they packed up.
(10) As Tristan Cooper, sovereign debt analyst at Fidelity Worldwide Investments, noted: "The irresistible force of German austerity has clashed with the immovable object of Greek popular resistance."
(11) But there sometimes comes a point where we start to think we are pushing an immovable object.
(12) The text agreed next week will no doubt recommend policy changes but these are likely to be too little, too late because there appears to be an immovable political obstacle to considering changes before 2020 (did someone say Poland?)
(13) Photograph: François Duhamel This is a great premise for a movie, and the scenes in which the unstoppable force of Walt Disney meets the immovable object of PL Travers are terrific – as are those in which she is driven around by a needlessly chirpy chauffeur (Paul Giamatti), and faces down screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford) and songwriting brothers Robert and Richard Sherman (BJ Novak and Jason Schwartzman).
(14) Choosing among ‘the vulnerable of the vulnerable’ The US places a strict, but not immoveable, ceiling on the number of refugees it admits annually.
(15) Think hard-force-meets-immovable-object and you'll have some idea of what it was like.
(16) While the friction measured in vitro with immovable brackets and in vivo without occlusal load did not differ significantly, additional tooth movement by occlusal load resulted in significant reduction of friction magnitude.
(17) The stiff osteosynthesis with immovable plates realize a therapeutic dissociation between the skeletal stage and the basal alveolo-dental stage.
(18) Since Ed Balls backed Vince Cable's mansion tax, Labour should have seized this easy chance to embrace Clegg's wealth tax and build on it – it's popular and right to tax immovable wealth.
(19) Luzhkov was once an immovable feature against the protean backdrop of Russia's domestic politics.
(20) This method is proving to be useful, particularly for electrophysiological and pharmacological studies on immovable cells such as those in culture.
Immovableness
Definition:
(n.) Quality of being immovable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(2) Right now, with Kabila already 10 years in power and looking immovable, despotism seems to have democracy on the ropes.
(3) There were two principles on which James was immoveable: that the intricacy of a plot could never make up for poor writing ("I find with my own reading, that it doesn't matter how exciting a book is: if it's badly written one just can't be bothered with it.
(4) The procedure of resecting the heads of the metatarsal bones according to Lelièvre seems to be recommendable in order to prevent immovability, especially in case of advanced inflammable alterations of the joints in the forefoot.
(5) Though it "was inevitable that Spain would face lean years as it learned to live within its means", Krugman argued, "Germany's immovability was an important contributor to Spain's pain".
(6) As I said at the end, I’d ideally like some Frankenstein-esque combination of her willingness to stare into the void with JC’s immovable principles.
(7) For this purpose a moulded jacket was designed which could hold the inhaler in an immovable position during actuation.
(8) [It] provokes the Greek people,” he said on Friday, insisting that the loan effectively ended the British Museum’s argument that the Greek antiquities were immovable.
(9) One day the British were there, immovable, complete masters; next day, the Japanese, whom we derided, mocked as short, stunted people with short-sighted squint eyes.” After the second world war when the British were trying to reestablish control: “... the old mechanisms had gone and the old habits of obedience and respect (for the British) had also gone because people had seen them run away (from the Japanese) ... they packed up.
(10) As Tristan Cooper, sovereign debt analyst at Fidelity Worldwide Investments, noted: "The irresistible force of German austerity has clashed with the immovable object of Greek popular resistance."
(11) But there sometimes comes a point where we start to think we are pushing an immovable object.
(12) The text agreed next week will no doubt recommend policy changes but these are likely to be too little, too late because there appears to be an immovable political obstacle to considering changes before 2020 (did someone say Poland?)
(13) Photograph: François Duhamel This is a great premise for a movie, and the scenes in which the unstoppable force of Walt Disney meets the immovable object of PL Travers are terrific – as are those in which she is driven around by a needlessly chirpy chauffeur (Paul Giamatti), and faces down screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford) and songwriting brothers Robert and Richard Sherman (BJ Novak and Jason Schwartzman).
(14) Choosing among ‘the vulnerable of the vulnerable’ The US places a strict, but not immoveable, ceiling on the number of refugees it admits annually.
(15) Think hard-force-meets-immovable-object and you'll have some idea of what it was like.
(16) While the friction measured in vitro with immovable brackets and in vivo without occlusal load did not differ significantly, additional tooth movement by occlusal load resulted in significant reduction of friction magnitude.
(17) The stiff osteosynthesis with immovable plates realize a therapeutic dissociation between the skeletal stage and the basal alveolo-dental stage.
(18) Since Ed Balls backed Vince Cable's mansion tax, Labour should have seized this easy chance to embrace Clegg's wealth tax and build on it – it's popular and right to tax immovable wealth.
(19) Luzhkov was once an immovable feature against the protean backdrop of Russia's domestic politics.
(20) This method is proving to be useful, particularly for electrophysiological and pharmacological studies on immovable cells such as those in culture.