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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Origin of fixity
From the New Latin word fixitās, dating back to 1660–70. See fix, -ity
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Her transfixing allure seems to draw every oddity and incident, but as the years pass, there’s also a fixity to her resolve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
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
“Perhaps falling in love in middle age is in part the desire to experience fixity again,” the narrator muses.
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
Pairs used to maintain the fidelity and fixity of information.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
We are glad to be driven from false, automatic fixities, anyhow.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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
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
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