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
- bioleaching
- biolinguistic
- biolinguistics
- biolistic
- biolistics
- biolith
- biologic
- biological
- biological anthropologist
- biological anthropology
- biological assay
- biological chemistry
- biological clock
- biological control
- biological determinism
- biological diversity
- biological engineering
- biological hole
- biological invader
- biological invasion
- biologically
- biologically active
- biological membrane
- biological psychiatrist
- biological psychiatry