fixity
noun
fix·i·ty
ˈfik-sə-tē 
plural fixities
1
: the quality or state of being fixed or stable
2
: something that is fixed
Examples of fixity in a Sentence
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Her transfixing allure seems to draw every oddity and incident, but as the years pass, there’s also a fixity to her resolve.
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Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
And the other dogs seethe and shout, and the squirrel upside down on the tree trunk stares at us in hateful fixity, etc., etc.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 June 2024
No crying out, no convulsions—nothing but the fixity of a pensive gaze.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
There’s something in us as human beings which seeks fixity and definiteness and absoluteness.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
Pence’s self-smoothness and fixity can appear not just out of step with the times but absurdly self-conscious.
—T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
In his worlds, familiar physiology is bent into strange new shapes, showing us that the seeming fixity of our bodies is only a soothing illusion.
—Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
And do not call it fixity.
—Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
Part of that fixity comes from nostalgia.
—New York Times, 13 May 2022
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Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
And the other dogs seethe and shout, and the squirrel upside down on the tree trunk stares at us in hateful fixity, etc., etc.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 June 2024
No crying out, no convulsions—nothing but the fixity of a pensive gaze.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
There’s something in us as human beings which seeks fixity and definiteness and absoluteness.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
Pence’s self-smoothness and fixity can appear not just out of step with the times but absurdly self-conscious.
—T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
In his worlds, familiar physiology is bent into strange new shapes, showing us that the seeming fixity of our bodies is only a soothing illusion.
—Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
And do not call it fixity.
—Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
Part of that fixity comes from nostalgia.
—New York Times, 13 May 2022
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“Fixity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fixity. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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fixity
noun
fix·i·ty
ˈfik-sət-ē
plural fixities
1
: the quality or state of being fixed
2
: something that is fixed
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