| NOUN | attribute | fixity, fastness, fixedness, fixture, secureness | the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment |
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| attribute | fixity, immutability, immutableness | the quality of being incapable of mutation |
| Meaning | The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment. | |
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| Synonyms | fastness, fixedness, fixture, secureness | |
| Narrower | lodgment, lodgement, lodging | The state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily |
| Broader | immovability, immovableness | not capable of being moved or rearranged |
| Opposite | looseness | The quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints |
| Spanish | continuidad, fijeza, persistencia, pervivencia | |
| Catalan | continuïtat, fixesa, persistència | |
| Adjectives | fixed | securely placed or fastened or set |
| fixed | fixed and unmoving | |
| fixed | incapable of being changed or moved or undone | |
| Meaning | The quality of being incapable of mutation. | |
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| Example | "Darwin challenged the fixity of species" | |
| Synonyms | immutability, immutableness | |
| Narrower | agelessness | The quality of being timeless and eternal |
| unalterability | The quality of not being alterable | |
| Broader | changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness | The quality of being unchangeable |
| Opposite | mutability, mutableness | The quality of being capable of mutation |
| Spanish | inmutabilidad | |
| Catalan | immutabilitat | |
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