the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Fixedness; ; also, that which is fixed.
n. Coherence of parts.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state of being fixed; fixed character; fixedness; stability: as, fixity of tenure.
n. Specifically In physics, the state or property of a body in virtue of which it resists change under the action of heat or other cause.
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n. the quality of being incapable of mutation
n. the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
Word Usage
"It may be that, on the whole, the idea of fixity prevailed more among thinkers with a religious bias; but for the most part the theories were debated independently of the tenets of any faith, Christian or other."