fixity

I think we’re shifting to models in which we’re maybe less interested in the idea of nature as a space of fixity, or something that can be set apart from human culture and humanity.
The Unexpected Ways Climate Change is Reshaping College Education|Ciara Nugent|April 16, 2021|Time
We do not want to sink to such a fanatical fixity, but we do not want to drown in ahistorical complacency, either.
America's Terrorism Amnesia|Lee Siegel|January 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST
But there was arising a quiver in the fingers he held which belied the emotionless fixity of her face.
The Hidden Places|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Their eyes met in a lingering fixity, each with a question that did not find utterance.
The Hidden Places|Bertrand W. Sinclair

She gave a start, drew a little back and looked at him with a certain startled fixity as if he had stopped all else in her.
Fidelity|Susan Glaspell
As the cottages belong to the landowners, fixity or certainty of tenure is like taking their rights from them.
The Hills and the Vale|Richard Jefferies
And at last the wheel has rest, is still, Shrunk to an adamant core: Fulfilling its will in fixity.
The Burning Wheel|Aldous Huxley

British Dictionary definitions for fixity

fixity

/ (ˈfɪksɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

the state or quality of being fixed; stability

something that is fixed; a fixture

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