Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fixity \Fix"i*ty\ (-[i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. F. fixit['e].]
1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is
fixed.
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2. Coherence of parts. --Sir I. Newton.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fixity
n 1: the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm
attachment [syn: {fastness}, {fixedness}, {fixity},
{fixture}, {secureness}] [ant: {looseness}]
2: the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin
challenged the fixity of species" [syn: {immutability},
{immutableness}, {fixity}] [ant: {mutability}, {mutableness}]