Crossword clues for fixedness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fixedness \Fix"ed*ness\, n.
The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
Wiktionary
n. The state or condition of being fixed.
WordNet
n. remaining in place [syn: stationariness, immobility]
the quality of being fixed in place [syn: fastness, fixity, fixture, secureness]
the quality of being fixed and unchangeable; "the fixedness of his gaze upset her" [syn: unalterability]
Usage examples of "fixedness".
These are fixedness and movement, analogous, in philosophy, to Truth and Fiction, and, in Absolute Conception, to Necessity and Liberty, which are the very essence of Deity.
Secrets of the Temple, that double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
Equilibrium of things produced by the counterbalancing of fixedness and movement, 778-l.
Essential laws of fixedness and movement, counterbalanced, produce equilibrium, 778-l.
Life perpetually caused by the double law of fixedness and movement, 843-u.
I sped across the light to the next shadow, and stood again, looking with fearful fixedness of gaze towards the far end of the corridor.
There was an expression, too, in the whole face, of fixedness of purpose, without any hardness of determination.
Lovelock sat in the same posture all the evening, and that his imagination had not projected itself into the play was proved by the fact that during the entractes he gazed with the same dull fixedness at the curtain.
Imagine it: Those rigid, shock-headed figures, with corpsy complexions and fish glass eyes, occupying one side of the table in the constrained attitudes and dead fixedness that distinguish all men that are born of wax, and this wrinkled, smoldering old fire-eater occupying the other side, mumbling her prayers and munching her sausages in the ghostly stillness and shadowy indistinctness of a winter twilight.
I sat unoccupied, they would brood with melancholy fixedness on I know not what.
I derived benefit from the task: it had kept my head and hands employed, and had given force and fixedness to the new impressions I wished to stamp indelibly on my heart.
Imagine it: Those rigid, shock-headed figures, with corpsy complexions and fish glass eyes, occupying one side of the table in the constrained attitudes and dead fixedness that distinquish all men that are born of wax, and this wrinkled, smoldering old fire-eater occupying the other side, mumbling her prayers and munching her sausages in the ghostly stillness and shadowy indistinctness of a winter twilight.