Other forms: mobilities
Mobility is the ability to move about — or to change your position in life. Physical movement and social movement share a word.
The physical sense belongs to health and design, so a mobility scooter, mobility aids and reduced mobility are all standard terms, and they matter for how buildings are planned. The social sense is a whole field of study, since social mobility means the chance of ending up better off than your parents, and countries are compared on it. Both come from the same idea of being able to move rather than being stuck.
1nounphysicallyThe ability to move about physically.
“The operation restored some of his mobility.”
2nounmobilityThe ability to move between social or economic positions.
“Social mobility has fallen in the last thirty years.”
Proto-Indo-European
*m(y)ewh₁-
Latin
mobilitas — mobility
Middle French
mobilité
English, today
mobility
From Middle French mobilité, and its source, Latin mobilitas (“mobility”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA