noun
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the state or quality of being fixed; stability
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something that is fixed; a fixture
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Etymology
Origin of fixity
From the New Latin word fixitās, dating back to 1660–70. See fix, -ity
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Here, mobility is in danger of becoming an abstraction, and, because Tokarczuk repeatedly returns to her themes, the ironic effect is of a certain fixity.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018
But the drive for fixity is thwarted by the form of this novel, which is determinedly fluid, as if in search of a style appropriate for the fluidity of the middle part of life.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2018
In fact, she regards Darwin’s work as “impressive,” and makes no argument for a young Earth, the fixity of species or any of the other usual creationist canards.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 17, 2018
As in so much of Shepard’s work, fixity is a mirage that vanishes when approached.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2017
The blind spot is called functional fixity because people get fixated on ah object’s function and forget its physical makeup.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
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 Benson, Vincent
We are glad to be driven from false, automatic fixities, anyhow.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
He lapsed to the commoner persuasion of the great fixities and recurrencies of the human routine.
From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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