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fixity

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Noun
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fix=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

fixityn. [Cf. F. fixité.].
  •  Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Coherence of parts.  Sir I. Newton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fixity, n.
1 a fixed state.
2 stability; permanence.

Etymology
obs. fix fixed: see FIX

ROGET THESAURUS

fixity

Quiescence

N quiescence, rest, stillness, quiescence, stagnation, stagnancy, fixity, immobility, catalepsy, indisturbance, quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm, repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep, pause, lull, stand still, standing still, lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix, embargo, resting place, gite, bivouac, home, pillow, haven, goal, quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed, stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still, sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home, becalmed, stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled, calm, restful, cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death, vegetative, vegetating, at a stand, tout court, at the halt, Int, stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!, requiescat in pace, Deus nobis haec otia fecit, the noonday quiet holds the hill.


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