Fixity
['fɪksɪtɪ] or ['fɪksəti]
Definition
(n.) Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.
(n.) Coherence of parts.
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Examples
- Fixity of habit may mean that something has a fixed hold upon us, instead of our having a free hold upon things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The figure perceptibly gave up its fixity, shifted a step or two, and turned round. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Germany, the most methodical of European countries, had in the Middle Ages a very clear conception of the fixity of such distinctions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Unhappily their tradition had not the fixity of a written record. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her extraordinary fixity, her conspicuous loneliness, her heedlessness of night, betokened among other things an utter absence of fear. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Tarzan was still gazing with fixity at the two faces. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The first of these is that we find such a fixity of classes in process of establishment as no other part of the world can present. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The analogy was justified by the appearance of the lady, whose large-eyed prettiness had the fixity of something impaled and shown under glass. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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