Noun
Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.
Coherence of parts.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. Octavio Paz
Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity. Octavio Paz
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. Octavio Paz
Thus our judgments, if they do not borrow from reason and philosophy a fixity and steadiness of purpose in their acts, are easily swayed and influenced by the praise or blame of others, which make us distrust our own opinions. Plutarch
And it was this that awed him - the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which, passing life at great speed, both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time. Thomas Wolfe
He spent the whole time sitting on a log in the woodshed, sometimes starting straight ahead with the fixity of a blind man who knows that even if he turns his head in the other direction he will still not see anything. José Saramago