noun
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the state or quality of being fixed; stability
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something that is fixed; a fixture
Other Word Forms
- unfixity noun
Etymology
Origin of fixity
From the New Latin word fixitās, dating back to 1660–70. See fix, -ity
Example Sentences
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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
For me, the emphasis on fixity as a measure of authenticity, as implied by the Foundation’s “core tenets,” deflects attention from the emotional probing that makes Gonzalez-Torres’s art so moving.
From New York Times
Though it takes place in the world of espionage, its surreal narrative drift resists the fixity of pulp beats and resolutions.
From New York Times
The earth was stamped with cloud shadows that gave an impression both of movement and fixity — a rich, dark earth with an inner seam that showed red and metallic in places.
From New York Times
It is the fixity of its text that makes it an immutable mobile, and it is immutable mobiles that are needed if facts are to endure into the post-print age.
From Literature
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