SuaviloquyToday’s word

immobility

Immobility, n.

Etymology: [L. immobilitas, fr. immobilis immovable; pref. im- not + mobilis movable: cf. F. immobilité. See Mobile.]

The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for immobility; he lists it under apathy.

Where he writes about it:

We speak of insensibility of heart, immobility of countenance. — from apathy