fixity : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fixity	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fixity n the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment Synonym(s): fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness Antonym(s): looseness the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species" Synonym(s): immutability, immutableness, fixity Antonym(s): mutability, mutableness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fixity \Fix"ity\ (-[icr]t[ycr]), n. [Cf. F. fixit[82].] 1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed. 2. Coherence of parts. --Sir I. Newton.