mobility
/mou'biliti/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The quality of being mobile; the ability to move or be moved freely and easily. This refers to the physical capacity for movement.
- The ability or potential to change one's social, economic, or geographic position. This refers to movement within a social structure or system.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- Regular exercise helps to maintain joint mobility in older adults.
- The new wheelchair design greatly improved the user's mobility.
- A college degree is often seen as a key to upward social mobility.
- The mobility of labor is essential for a dynamic economy.
Advanced Usage
- "Upward/Downward mobility": movement to a higher or lower social class or economic position.
- The study examined factors affecting upward mobility in the city.
- "Geographic mobility": the willingness or ability to move to a new location for work or other reasons.
- High housing costs can reduce the geographic mobility of workers.
- "Mobility aid": a device (like a cane or walker) designed to assist movement.
- The hospital provides various mobility aids for patients during recovery.
Variants and Related Words
- Mobile (adj): able to move or be moved freely; relating to mobile phones.
- She remained mobile well into her nineties.
- Mobile technology has changed how we communicate.
- Immobility (n): the state of not being able to move or be moved.
- The cast caused temporary immobility of his arm.
- Mobilize (v): to make something capable of movement; to organize people or resources for action.
- The army mobilized its reserves.
Synonyms
- Movability: the quality of being movable.
- Flexibility: the quality of bending easily without breaking; willingness to change.
- Portability: the quality of being light and small enough to be easily carried.
Antonyms
- Immobility: the state of not moving.
- Rigidity: inability to be bent or changed.
- Fixity: the state of being fixed or unchanging.
Noun
- the quality of moving freely