fixed
adjective
fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.
fixedness
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a word derived from
fixed.
Example Sentences
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Relational identity allows both sides to preserve their autonomy but also work within their shared space, an achievement of both fluidity and fixedness.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
For now, the authors continue to see "Moving forward, future possibilities of AI acting as a tool of inspiration, as an aid in a person's creative process or to overcome fixedness is promising."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
It was exhilarating to finally grasp how profound it will be to have MoMA’s collection trade its chiseled-in-stone fixedness for permanent, in-progress fluidity.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
Rather than reinforce the fixedness of gay-straight and male-female binaries, Araki’s tongue-in-cheek films have long praised those who refuse to be boxed in.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2019
This examination of the languages whose conjugations approach a fixed form, shows clearly that this fixedness is seriously shaken precisely where it is most important, through this insertion of the governed words.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
