fixity
noun
the state or quality of being fixed; stability; permanence.
fixities
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pluralof fixity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Equally, she is critical of “mastery” and the fixities of poetic craft.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2020
When Gabriel García Márquez was born, in 1927, in the sleepy little town of Aracataca, not far from Colombia’s Caribbean coast, there were certain established fixities in the world of letters.
From Time ● Apr. 17, 2014
He lapsed to the commoner persuasion of the great fixities and recurrencies of the human routine.
From The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The concept of mechanism suits the phenomena which occur within the zone of wreckage, on this shore of fixities and corpses.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
