NOUN
- the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
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the quality of being fixed and unchangeable
the fixedness of his gaze upset her - remaining in place
How To Use fixedness In A Sentence
- fixedness" of the targets, but I don't think in the end it is going to be whether you can compare the two battles that will make the difference. The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics
- The cultural change is a complicated process, in that psychic culture is most difficult for changing. The change or fixedness of psychic culture relate to the sacred crowd.
- Abel was driven to terminate his misery in a way which the unfixedness of his religious opinions rather accelerated than retarded. The Borough
- One can't help but respect this fortepianist, though, for his courage and for the fixedness of his vision.
- Not that I think, at worst, any more than you, that he dare to harbour a thought injurious to my honour: but he is very various, and there is an apparent, and even an acknowledged unfixedness in his temper, which at times gives me uneasiness. Clarissa Harlowe
- What we see, then, is a subtle mix of the fixedness that a posed portrait inevitably generates and a blurred indefiniteness, partly from camera shake and partly from the haze created by bright sunlight or late afternoon shadow.
- Functional fixedness, or thinking about objects only in terms of their functions, is another kind of mental set that prevents problem solving.
- How well does he seem to know this excellent woman, when he considers her unhappy unfixedness, occasioned by Sir Charles Grandison
- What I have said here of the nominal essence of gold, supposed to consist of a body of such a determinate colour, weight, and fusibility, will hold true, if malleableness, fixedness, and solubility in aqua regia be added to it. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Yet, it is precisely because of its fixedness in the landscape that, to those who see the monument, it becomes invisibly part of the landscape.