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fixity

Pronunciation:  'fiksitee

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species"
  2. [n]  the quality of being fixed in place
 
 Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixture, immutability, immutableness, secureness
 
 Antonyms: mutability, mutableness
 
 See Also: agelessness, changelessness, immovability, immovableness, lodgement, lodging, lodgment, unalterability, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Fix"i*ty\ (-[i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. F. fixit['e].]
1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is
   fixed.

2. Coherence of parts. --Sir I. Newton.

 

 

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