fixity

Noun

Meaning

Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.

Coherence of parts.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fixedness fixture immutability fastness secureness immutableness being fixed agreement continuing establishment continuity endurance amplification durability
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Antonyms

period work stage shudder phase cooperation
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Hypernyms

immovability immovableness changelessness unchangeability unchangeableness unchangingness

Hyponyms

lodging lodgement lodgment agelessness unalterability

Phrases with the word

fixity of purpose

Examples

Wisdom 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

Close letter words and terms

fixistic Fixit fixit man fixity of purpose fixive fixless