[+ -NESS.] The condition or quality of being stationary.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Stationariness, Settledness in a Place.
1797. Godwin, Enquirer, II. v. 231. All … depended upon the perennial stationariness of his understanding.
1803. Malthus, Popul., III. ii. (1806), II. 119. On this happiness or degree of misery depends principally the increase, stationariness, or decrease of population.
1882. Farrar, Early Chr., II. 9. When once settled in that city, St. James, with the natural stationariness of the Oriental, seems never to have left it.
