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FIXITY

English dictionary: Word overview

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.


English dictionary: Word details


FIXITY (noun)


Sense 1fixity [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fixity; fastness; fixedness; secureness; fixture

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)


Sense 2fixity [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

The quality of being incapable of mutation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

immutability; immutableness; fixity

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)


English Proverbs
"Many hands make light work."
(English proverb)
"If you tell the truth, people are not happy; if beaten with a stick, dogs are not happy."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"The people's lord is their servant."
(Arabic proverb)
"A crazy father and mother make sensible children."
(Corsican proverb)


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