fixedness

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Relational identity allows both sides to preserve their autonomy but also work within their shared space, an achievement of both fluidity and fixedness.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

For now, the authors continue to see "Moving forward, future possibilities of AI acting as a tool of inspiration, as an aid in a person's creative process or to overcome fixedness is promising."

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

It was exhilarating to finally grasp how profound it will be to have MoMA’s collection trade its chiseled-in-stone fixedness for permanent, in-progress fluidity.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2020

Rather than reinforce the fixedness of gay-straight and male-female binaries, Araki’s tongue-in-cheek films have long praised those who refuse to be boxed in.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2019

His belief in the harmony of the universe rests on his belief in the fixedness of law physical as well as moral, and moral as well as physical.

From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Calderwood, Henry