FIXEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fixedness mean? 

• FIXEDNESS (noun)
  The noun FIXEDNESS has 3 senses:

1. remaining in place

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

3. the quality of being fixed and unchangeable

  Familiarity information: FIXEDNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIXEDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remaining in place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

fixedness; immobility; stationariness

Hypernyms ("fixedness" is a kind of...):

lifelessness; motionlessness; stillness (a state of no motion or movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fixedness"):

rootage (fixedness by or as if by roots)

Derivation:

fixed (fixed and unmoving)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fastness; fixedness; fixity; fixture; secureness

Hypernyms ("fixedness" is a kind of...):

immovability; immovableness (not capable of being moved or rearranged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fixedness"):

lodgement; lodging; lodgment (the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily)

Antonym:

looseness (the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints)

Derivation:

fixed (securely placed or fastened or set)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being fixed and unchangeable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fixedness; unalterability

Context example:

the fixedness of his gaze upset her

Hypernyms ("fixedness" is a kind of...):

changelessness; unchangeability; unchangeableness; unchangingness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)

Derivation:

fixed ((of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value)

 Context examples 

I derived benefit from the task: it had kept my head and hands employed, and had given force and fixedness to the new impressions I wished to stamp indelibly on my heart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When she had finished her breakfast, my aunt very deliberately leaned back in her chair, knitted her brows, folded her arms, and contemplated me at her leisure, with such a fixedness of attention that I was quite overpowered by embarrassment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)