fixity
/ˈfɪksɪti
/noun [mass noun]
The state of being unchanging or permanent: the fixity of his stare...
- Rather, it is the stability and fixity of patterns of family practice which demand an explanation.
- If the Modern Era was a rage for order, regulation, stability, singularity, and fixity, the Postmodern Era is a rage for chaos, uncertainty, otherness, openness, multiplicity, and change.
- Without a sense of community, the village loses all fixity of purpose, never mind its unique identity.
Origin
Mid 17th century (denoting the property of a substance of not evaporating or losing weight when heated): partly from obsolete fix 'fixed', partly from French fixité.
Rhymes
- school leaving certificate
- schoolless
- school-like
- school-made
- schoolman
- schoolmarm
- school-marming
- schoolmarmish
- schoolmarmishly
- schoolmarmy
- schoolmaster
- schoolmastering
- schoolmasterish
- schoolmasterishness
- schoolmasterism
- schoolmasterly
- schoolmastership
- schoolmaster student
- schoolmaster studentship
- schoolmastery
- schoolmate
- school method
- school milk
- schoolmistress
- schoolmistressy