Fixity Synonyms and Antonyms

fĭksĭ-tē
Firmness of position
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. permanence
  2. persistence
  3. steadiness
  4. endurance
The quality of being incapable of mutation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. immutability
  2. immutableness
Antonyms:
  1. mutableness
  2. mutability
The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fastness
  2. fixedness
  3. fixture
  4. secureness

Words Related to Fixity

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Fixity Sentence Examples

  • The next demand was for greater fixity of tenure and more regular promotion, as well as for the recognition by the companies of the railwaymens union.

  • During the next session he acted vigorously in opposition, but his conduct was always viewed with distrust by his new associates, and his attacks on the ministry of Lord North grew less and less animated in proportion to its apparent fixity of tenure.

  • Linnaeus' invention of binomial nomenclature for designating species served systematic biology admirably, but at the same time, by attaching preponderating importance to a particular grade in classification, crystallized the doctrine of fixity.

  • Ray Lankester, have urged that the word is so firmly asssociated with historical implications of fixity which are now incongruous with its application, that it ought to be discarded from scientific nomenclature.

  • For in fixity and resoluteness of character he likened himself to God; and having kept himself free from sin was united with God, and was empowered to grasp as it were the power and authority of wonders.

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