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
- palaeological
- palaeologist
- palaeology
- palaeolongitude
- palaeomagnetic
- palaeomagnetism
- palaeomagnetist
- palaeomeridian
- palaeometallic
- palaeometeorological
- palaeometeorologist
- palaeometeorology
- palaeomorphic
- palaeonemertean
- palaeonemertine
- palaeoneurological
- palaeoneurologist
- palaeoneurology
- palaeoniscid
- palaeoniscoid
- palaeontographer
- palaeontographical
- palaeontography
- palaeontologic
- palaeontological