fixedness
Quality of staying
Fixedness is the quality of being fixed—stationary, unchanging, or firmly established.
The word often appears in technical contexts: fixedness of gaze in psychology, functional fixedness describing the tendency to see objects only in their conventional uses.
More generally, it captures stubborn immobility: the fixedness of his opinions, the fixedness of her expression.
Inability to change
- unchangeabilityInability to be modified
- constancyUnchanging faithfulness over time
- perpetuityInfinite continuation of time
- durabilityResistance to wear
endurance · indelibility · irreversibility · persistence · timelessness · continuity · lastingness · steadfastness
State of being constant
- anchorageSecure harbor spot
- securenessState of being protected
- equilibriumState of balance
- rootednessBeing firmly established somewhere
groundedness · firmness · solidity · fastness · mooring · anchoring · settledness · establishment
Quality of being unbending
- stiffnessResistance to deformation
- brittlenessProne to snapping
- hardnessResistance to penetration
- inelasticityInability to stretch back
ossification · petrification · solidification · calcification · frozenness · unbendingness · woodenness · tenseness
Unyielding adherence to position
- intransigenceRefusal to compromise
- adamanceUnwillingness to yield
- unyieldingnessRefusal to give way
- immovabilityInability to be shifted
uncompromisingness · doggedness · tenacity · resoluteness · obduracy · pigheadedness · mulishness · willfulness
immutability
Inability to change
- unchangeabilityInability to be modified
- constancyUnchanging faithfulness over time
- perpetuityInfinite continuation of time
durability · endurance · indelibility · irreversibility · persistence · timelessness · continuity · lastingness · steadfastness · invariability
steadiness
State of being constant
- anchorageSecure harbor spot
- securenessState of being protected
- equilibriumState of balance
rootedness · groundedness · firmness · solidity · fastness · mooring · anchoring · settledness · establishment · implantation
inflexibility
Quality of being unbending
- stiffnessResistance to deformation
- brittlenessProne to snapping
- hardnessResistance to penetration
inelasticity · ossification · petrification · solidification · calcification · frozenness · unbendingness · woodenness · tenseness · tautness
obstinacy
Unyielding adherence to position
- intransigenceRefusal to compromise
- adamanceUnwillingness to yield
- unyieldingnessRefusal to give way
immovability · uncompromisingness · doggedness · tenacity · resoluteness · obduracy · pigheadedness · mulishness · willfulness · single-mindedness
- Permanenceeternity, forever, immortality, timelessness, durability
- stubbornnessstubbornness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, bullheadedness, mulishness
- tenacitydetermined, persistence, persistent, perseverance, determination
- obsessionsobsession, monomania, preoccupation, mania, infatuation
- steadinessstability, consistency, constancy, steadiness, steadfastness
- closed-mindednessclosed-mindedness, close-mindedness, narrow-mindedness, inflexibility, rigidity
fixednessimpermanence
Quality of not lasting
transience · evanescence · ephemerality · fleetingness · temporariness
fixednesschangeability
Tendency to alter frequently
variability · mutability · instability · inconstancy · inconsistency
fixednesslooseness
State of not tight
mobility · movability · unfixedness · detachment · portability
fix, fixed, fixation, fixture, prefix, affix, unfixed, suffix, fixedly