English noun: fixity |
1. | fixity (attribute) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment |
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| Synonyms | fastness, fixedness, fixture, secureness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | immovability, immovableness |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | lodgement, lodging, lodgment |
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| Antonyms | looseness |
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2. | fixity (attribute) the quality of being incapable of mutation |
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| Samples | Darwin challenged the fixity of species.
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| Synonyms | immutability, immutableness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | agelessness, unalterability |
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| Antonyms | mutability, mutableness |
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