Associations to the word «Fixity»

Wiktionary

FIXITY, noun. (uncountable) The state or condition of being fixed.
FIXITY, noun. (countable) Something fixed.

Dictionary definition

FIXITY, noun. The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment.
FIXITY, noun. The quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky