Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being fixed; stability; firmness; steadfastness; firm coherence: as, a fixedness in religion or politics; fixedness of opinion on any subject; the fixedness of gold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
- noun The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
fixed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun remaining in place
- noun the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
- noun the quality of being fixed and unchangeable
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Examples
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In looking into the derivation of this term, it will be found that the word stock comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning to stick, and that while it has many different uses, the idea of fixedness is expressed in every one of them.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish
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"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 Derrick Crowe 2010
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"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.
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In any case, categories, once invented, tend to take on an ontological status almost comparable to objects in the physical world: they acquire a sense of reality and fixedness that can be seriously misleading.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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If the idea of long-term employment with the same firm, or the notion that full-time employment has some connotation of stability or fixedness about it, are history -- and they are -- can the concept of a full-time, salaried work unit survive?
Liz Ryan: Welcome to the Antique Shop Part Three: Will Granular Work Replace the Full-time Work Week? Liz Ryan 2012
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Thinking only of the typical use for objects is called “functional fixedness” and other data show that kids are less susceptible to it, and become more susceptible to it when you show them the typical function.
Willingham: Is a paradigm shift really needed? Valerie Strauss 2010
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If the idea of long-term employment with the same firm, or the notion that full-time employment has some connotation of stability or fixedness about it, are history -- and they are -- can the concept of a full-time, salaried work unit survive?
Liz Ryan: Welcome to the Antique Shop Part Three: Will Granular Work Replace the Full-time Work Week? Liz Ryan 2012
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This conviction is the source not only of Protestantism's vitality and flexibility, but also of its lack of fixedness and its innate tendency toward schism.
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See also, T.P. German and M.A. Defeyter, “Immunity to functional fixedness in young children,” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7 2000, 707–12.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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Of course, not all adults fall prey to functional fixedness—the inability to see new and usual ways to use an object, such as a tack box as a support.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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