motile vs sessile

motile

noun
  • A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc. 

adj
  • In organs: having the power to move their contents, or to change their shape or tension by writhing or contracting as required by their particular physiological functions. 

  • Of or relating to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position. Cf. kinesthetic, proprioceptive. 

  • In organs or organelles: capable of producing motion. 

  • In organisms: having the power to move spontaneously. 

sessile

adj
  • Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about. 

  • Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless. 

How often have the words motile and sessile occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )