fixity
- n the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
- n the quality of being incapable of mutation
Darwin challenged the fixity of species
- She was capable of emotional fixity that makes the poems written just before her suicide in 1963 nearly unbearable: pictures of rage and despair drawn virtually in words of one .
- As they grow up, they go on looking at people and things as they did when they were children, with a certain ulterior fixity of attention.
- And how all thought of fixity in anything had disappeared as a ridiculous illusion intended, maybe, by something to fool man into the belief that his world here, his physical .