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fixity

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fix·i·ty  (fks-t)
n. pl. fix·i·ties
1. The quality or condition of being fixed.
2. Something fixed or immovable.
fixity
Noun
pl -ties the state or quality of a person's gaze, attitude, or concentration not changing or weakening: a remarkable fixity of purpose
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Noun1.fixity - the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
fastness, fixedness, secureness, fixture
immovability, immovableness - not capable of being moved or rearranged
lodgement, lodging, lodgment - the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily; "the lodgment of the balloon in the tree"
2.fixity - the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species"
immutability, immutableness
unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness, changelessness - the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged
unalterability - the quality of not being alterable
agelessness - the quality of being timeless and eternal
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In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
The discovery of these laws is only possible when possible when we have quite abandoned the attempt to find the cause in the will of some one man, just as the discovery of the laws of the motion of the planets was possible only when men abandoned the conception of the fixity of the earth.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
His face in the moonlight showed a pallor and fixity inexpressibly distressing.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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