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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fixity
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Does the fixity on a particular occasion set in as a purely mental act of knowledge?
▪ It was believed that fixity of exchange rates was necessary for the consolidation and development of these achievements.
▪ Second, stability does not imply fixity or constancy.
▪ The girl nearest to the car, noticing the fixity of his stare, responded with a discreet V sign.
▪ The Werner Plan placed emphasis on the fixity of exchange rates and complete freedom of capital movements.
▪ This present position should not be accorded a psychological fixity, which is somehow removed from the fluidity of historical development.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fixity

Fixity \Fix"i*ty\ (-[i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. F. fixit['e].]

  1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.

  2. Coherence of parts.
    --Sir I. Newton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fixity

1660s in physics; general use from 1791; see fix (v.) + -ity.

Wiktionary
fixity

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or condition of being fixed. 2 (context countable English) Something fixed.

WordNet
fixity

  1. n. the quality of being fixed in place [syn: fastness, fixedness, fixture, secureness]

  2. the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species" [syn: immutability, immutableness] [ant: mutability, mutability]

Wikipedia
Fixity

Fixity may refer to:-

  • MV Fixity, an Empire F type coaster in service with F T Everard & Sons 1946-61.
  • USS Fixity (AM-235), an Admiral Class minesweeper.
  • Operator associativity is also known as Fixity in computing.

Usage examples of "fixity".

Their work demystifies structuralism and all the philosophical, sociological, and political conceptions that make the fixity of the epistemological frame an ineluctable point of reference.

Above all, let us strive to disengage ourselves from homogeneous space, this substratum of fixity, this arbitrary scheme of measurement and division, which, to our greater advantage, subtends the natural, qualitative, and undivided extension of images.

West did not touch the problemless Jew, whose inner life had passed into fixity with the completion of the Culture which created this Jewish Church-State-People-Nation.

I can muster for the fundamental notions of fixity that regulate and undergird ordinary perception and thinking.

There are today a few remaining large reptiles on Earth, the most striking of which is the Komodo dragon of Indonesia: cold-blooded, not very bright, but a predator exhibiting a chilling fixity of purpose.

What Taussig calls our culture's "mimetic excess" destabilizes all fixities of signification and power.

His public life, his conduct in the constituent assembly, his independent principles, the nobleness of his sentiments, the wisdom and fixity of his opinions, had gained him the esteem of those who can be depended upon, and with whom it is so agreeable to discuss political interests.

Her gaze fell upon one with a transpiercing fixity: it was the moon gaze through which the dead dragon of life gave off a cold fire.

The stars burned with a lidless fixity and they drew nearer in the night until toward dawn he was stum­bling among the whinstones of the uttermost ridge to heaven, a barren range of rock so enfolded in that gaudy house that stars lay awash at his feet and migratory spalls of burning mat­ter crossed constantly about him on their chartless reckonings.