Definition of "fixity" []

• The quality or condition of being fixed. (noun)
• Something fixed or immovable. (noun)

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• "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."
• "The difference in the mean variation of the first and second intervals respectively rises to an individual maximum of 3.000: 1.000, and averages for all subjects 2.290: 1.000; the fixity, that is to say, of the inter-group interval in this form of tapping is more than twice as great as that of the intra-group interval."
• "We connect the idea of fixity with the mountains, but they seem to me to be continually pirouetting with each other, -- exchanging or entirely losing their identity."