fixity

Here, mobility is in danger of becoming an abstraction, and, because Tokarczuk repeatedly returns to her themes, the ironic effect is of a certain fixity.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018

But the drive for fixity is thwarted by the form of this novel, which is determinedly fluid, as if in search of a style appropriate for the fluidity of the middle part of life.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2018

In fact, she regards Darwin’s work as “impressive,” and makes no argument for a young Earth, the fixity of species or any of the other usual creationist canards.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 17, 2018

The pieces of fabric become slow-motion photograms, ghostly physical evidence of the church’s great wealth and its doctrinal fixity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018

The profusion of metaconcepts in professional writing—all those levels, issues, contexts, frameworks, and perspectives—also makes sense when you consider the personal history of chunking and functional fixity in the writers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Equally, she is critical of “mastery” and the fixities of poetic craft.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2020

When Gabriel García Márquez was born, in 1927, in the sleepy little town of Aracataca, not far from Colombia’s Caribbean coast, there were certain established fixities in the world of letters.

From Time ● Apr. 17, 2014

He relates all this but little to the wishes of other people, to the inherent fixities of things, to his own future states, to whether one wish is compatible 54 with another.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer

FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites.

From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The concept of mechanism suits the phenomena which occur within the zone of wreckage, on this shore of fixities and corpses.

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson