Usage of "fixedness" | TermGallery

Catalan

fixesa

Spanish

continuidad

The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment.

looseness

fixesa

Portuguese

imobilidade

Remaining in place.

imobilidade

Synonyms

Examples for "fixture"

A new date for the fixture will be announced in due course. 
 The Irish Times 

A year later, entering the same fixture, it's a vastly different scenario. 
 The Irish Times 

Not a rare occurrence in this famous fixture, especially in recent years. 
 The South African 

The police and thug violence became a regular fixture of anti-government protests. 
 The Guardian 

It will be lunchtime today before the revised fixture list is announced. 
 The Irish Times 

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

His face in the moonlight showed a pallor and fixity inexpressibly distressing. 
 Can Such Things Be? 

The fixity of her mood was broken by the action of walking. 
 The Voyage Out 

The very quietude and fixity of their being perplexed and estranged me. 
 The Blue Flower 

He was looking straight in front of him with a singular fixity. 
 With Edged Tools 

The Indians of the Muskingum valley felt secure in their wilderness fastness. 
 The War Chief of the Ottawas : A chronicle of the Pontiac war 

Kut-le drew rein beside a little waterfall deep in the mountain fastness. 
 The Heart of the Desert / Kut-Le of the Desert 

Up the cliff they clambered, and soon spied us in our fastness. 
 The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin / Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel ... 

The Saxons were not strong enough to dispossess them of their fastness. 
 King Alfred of England / Makers of History 

I was told I had license throughout the fastness during the convocation. 
 Spellwright 

But the ground that Dante has won he holds with equal secureness. 
 A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 

To the kitchen, then, they hurried, and found real comfort in its smallness and secureness. 
 Prudence of the Parsonage 

Temptations serve against the secureness of our flesh. 
 Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther 

Catalan

inflexibilitat

The quality of being fixed and unchangeable.

unalterability

inflexibilitat

Usage of fixedness in English

And he had the mouth women put faith in for decision and fixedness. 
 The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1 

Her eyes rested on the murderers with the most acute fixedness. 
 Theresa Raquin 

His great power lay in his demand for fixedness of opinion. 
 The Bride of Dreams 

The horse was gazing with statuesque fixedness across a waste of partially-melted snow. 
 The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest 

She stared at Miss Rosa Blair, who returned her stare with curious fixedness. 
 By the Light of the Soul: A Novel 

Billy examined the tautness of the tent ropes and the fixedness of stakes. 
 Anthropology of an american girl: a novel 

SOCRATES: How can anything fixed be concerned with that which has no fixedness? 
 Philebus 

A transforming force, locked away by a sex that worshiped fixedness? 
 Imajica: Complete Edition 

Aurelia bent her eyes upon the deacon, who met the look with austere fixedness. 
 Veranilda 

That wore a fixedness of amiability which accentuated the whole like a high light. 
 The Portion of Labor 

Gregory looked up, and marked the fixedness of her gaze. 
 Fran 

The old man turned and looked at him with a kind of doubtful fixedness. 
 None Other Gods 

When these two talked without apparent heat it was with unalterable fixedness of purpose. 
 The Princess Elopes 

Essential laws of fixedness and movement, counterbalanced, produce equilibrium, 778-l. 
 Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr... 

I am looking back at him, with a quiet fixedness. 
 Nancy: A Novel 

Approaches for overcoming functional fixedness in puzzles, code, or the kitchen are the same. 
 Cooking for geeks: real science, great hacks, and good food 