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How to pronounce motionlessness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms lifelessness, stillness
Type of state
Has types fixedness, immobility, stationariness
Derivation motionless


the utter motionlessness of a marble statue.

Examples of motionlessness

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I thought of the discipline required for such motionlessness on a steamy late afternoon.
From the nytimes.com
The group intentionally planned the moment of motionlessness early enough so that ticketholders could play along.
From the kansas.com
While I love to hunt deer, the hours of virtual motionlessness can get to be a literal pain in the backside.
From the al.com
It contains some of the same elements as the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox, but with a more apparent conclusion of motionlessness.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Near the end of the stanza, the steadiness of the gleaner in lines 19-20 again emphasises a motionlessness within the poem.
From the en.wikipedia.org
There are the synaptic flashes which launch the patients'awakenings and never far behind the dissolutions into motionlessness and silence.
From the guardian.co.uk
Office workers groped through dim hallways toward daylit exits, subway trains coasted into motionlessness, and tourists stood around in knots, prevented by guards from entering the darkened Capitol.
From the time.com
More examples
  • A state of no motion or movement; "the utter motionlessness of a marble statue"
  • (motionless) inactive: not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest"
  • The property of being motionless
  • (motionless) having or making no motion; standing still
  • (MOtionless) when someone talks with a mo, the lips are moving, but the mo remains perfectly still