FIXITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fixity mean? 

• FIXITY (noun)
  The noun FIXITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

2. the quality of being incapable of mutation

  Familiarity information: FIXITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIXITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fastness; fixedness; fixity; fixture; secureness

Hypernyms ("fixity" is a kind of...):

immovability; immovableness (not capable of being moved or rearranged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fixity"):

lodgement; lodging; lodgment (the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily)

Derivation:

fixed (incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.)

fixed (securely placed or fastened or set)

fixed (fixed and unmoving)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being incapable of mutation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fixity; immutability; immutableness

Context example:

Darwin challenged the fixity of species

Hypernyms ("fixity" is a kind of...):

changelessness; unchangeability; unchangeableness; unchangingness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fixity"):

unalterability (the quality of not being alterable)

agelessness (the quality of being timeless and eternal)

 Context examples 

And through the swaying, palpitant vision, as through a fairy mirage, he stared at the real woman, sitting there and talking of literature and art. He listened as well, but he stared, unconscious of the fixity of his gaze or of the fact that all that was essentially masculine in his nature was shining in his eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Miss Temple had looked down when he first began to speak to her; but she now gazed straight before her, and her face, naturally pale as marble, appeared to be assuming also the coldness and fixity of that material; especially her mouth, closed as if it would have required a sculptor's chisel to open it, and her brow settled gradually into petrified severity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)