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FIXITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being incapable of mutation
Example:
Darwin challenged the fixity of species
Synonyms:
fixity; immutability; immutableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
Synonyms:
fastness; fixedness; fixity; fixture; secureness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
