noun
1. remaining in place
• Syn: ↑stationariness, ↑immobility
• Derivationally related forms: ↑fixed, ↑immobile (for: ↑immobility), ↑stationary (for: ↑stationariness)
• Hypernyms: ↑motionlessness, ↑stillness, ↑lifelessness
• Hyponyms: ↑rootage
2. the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
• Syn: ↑fastness, ↑fixity, ↑fixture, ↑secureness
• Ant: ↑looseness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑secure (for: ↑secureness), ↑fix (for: ↑fixture), ↑fixed (for: ↑fixity), ↑fixed, ↑fast (for: ↑fastness)
• Hypernyms: ↑immovability, ↑immovableness
3. the quality of being fixed and unchangeable
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the fixedness of his gaze upset her
• Syn: ↑unalterability
• Derivationally related forms: ↑unalterable (for: ↑unalterability), ↑fixed
• Hypernyms: ↑changelessness, ↑unchangeability, ↑unchangeableness, ↑unchangingness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.