Definitions for fixity

fixity fix·i·ty

Spelling: [fik-si-tee]
IPA: /ˈfɪk sɪ ti/

Fixity is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in fixity (fiitxy).

Definitions for fixity

noun

  1. the state or quality of being fixed; stability; permanence.
  2. something fixed, stable, or permanent.

Origin of fixity

From the New Latin word fixitās, dating back to 1660-70. See fix, -ity

Examples for fixity

You have your mother's sweet disposition, and also I think my fixity of purpose.

Thus it happened that the fixity of his gaze was intensified.

Esthetic imagination,contrasted to mechanical, 264;fixity of, 264.

He had a fixity of purpose; not too much purpose, but so fixed.

He had no fixity of purpose, no anchor of righteousness that held him.

“It is all tomfoolery,” John answered with fixity of 139 purpose.

There are two ways in which a language may attain permanence or fixity.

I responded to his words and to the fixity of his gaze by silence.

The persistence and fixity of the phenomenon excluded any idea of hallucination.

But to my mind there is no fixity, no absolute truth in any form of religious dogma.

Word Value for fixity
Scrable

19

Words with friends

18

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