different between movable vs movableness

English

Alternative forms

• moveable

Etymology

From Old French movable. Surface etymology is move +? -able

Adjective

movable (comparative more movable, superlative most movable)

1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary
   • 1902, Henry Billings Brown, The Osceola

     The owners had supplied the vessel with a movable derrick for the purpose of raising the gangways of the vessel when in port, in order to discharge cargo.

2. Changing from one time to another

Antonyms

• immovable

Derived terms

• movable letter

Translations

Noun

movable (plural movables)

1. Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.

Translations

References

• movable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

movable +? -ness

Noun

movableness (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being movable; mobility.