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fixedness|ˈfɪksɪdnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The quality or condition of being fixed in various senses.
a. Of material things: Immobility, steadiness of position, stillness, permanence.
1641Bp. Hall Serm. in Rem. Wks. (1660) 66 The Earth was made for fixednesse and stability. 1647H. More Song of Soul iii. i. xxxiii, What eye could bear in contemplation So long a fix'dnesse? a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 170 The..Fix'dness of a Star. 1812–16J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 448 The beauty and fixedness of the colours. 1845Maurice Mor. Phil. in Encycl. Metrop. 590/1 The Eleatic ‘fixedness’, which was the formal opposite of the Heracleitan ‘flux’. 1859O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. xii. 274 The fixedness of the smileless mouth.
b. Of immaterial things: Definiteness, invariability. Of persons and their attributes: Firmness, resoluteness, steadfastness (in); steadfast adherence to (a cause); intentness, attentiveness.
1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl. O.T. xx. x, The fixednesse of his terme, is no less mercie than the protraction. 1680R. Mansel Narr. Popish Plot 12 A person whose fixedness to the true Interest of his Majesty..they well knew. 1784J. Brown Hist. Brit. Churches I. 110 That notwithstanding her fixedness in her own religion, she would compel none to it. 1823Examiner 709/2 The fixedness of her despair. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vii. v, All hearts set, with a moody fixedness, on one object. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. xv, He was looking at her with mild fixedness while he spoke. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 122 The great defect of both his [Plato's] constitutions is the fixedness which he seeks to impress upon them.
†2. The quality of resisting the action of heat, or of being non-volatile. Obs.
1665Hooke Microgr. 28 The Proprieties of Gold (such as are the Malleableness..Fixtness in the fire). 1764Heberden in Phil. Trans. LV. 58 The natron..resembles the vegetable alkali in taste and fixedness. 1812–16J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 365 The fixedness of platina admirably fits it for crucibles. |