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
Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with but fixities and definites.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
In the turbulent confusion of his mind, the Squire still clung to certain fixities.
From The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall
FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
