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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Jeremy Strong, who, as Kendall Roy on “Succession,” turned ethics-free tooldom into poetry, finds his Cohn in verbal tics and locked-jaw fixity.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2024
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 • Feb. 2, 2023
Here, mobility is in danger of becoming an abstraction, and, because Tokarczuk repeatedly returns to her themes, the ironic effect is of a certain fixity.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018
But the drive for fixity is thwarted by the form of this novel, which is determinedly fluid, as if in search of a style appropriate for the fluidity of the middle part of life.
From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2018
The profusion of metaconcepts in professional writing—all those levels, issues, contexts, frameworks, and perspectives—also makes sense when you consider the personal history of chunking and functional fixity in the writers.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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