fixedness
- noun
- /ˈfɪkstnəs/
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fijación
- In studying the behavior of certain species, scientists noted their fixedness in migrating each year.
- functional fixedness
Because we are all subject to what's called functional fixedness or fixedness.
- Because we are all subject to what's called functional fixedness or fixedness.
Examples
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Experiments 1-3 found that recalling a multicultural learning experience: (a) facilitates idea flexibility (e.g., the ability to solve problems in multiple ways), (b) increases awareness of underlying connections and associations, and (c) helps overcome functional fixedness.
Blog text (15) -
Fielding imagines that a set of jurisdictions will create new identities for people and property—identities that are determined by both a relationship to authority and a fixedness inside the administrative and institutional framework of England.
Academic text (2007) -
But to be what I am, it requires fixedness of mind.
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Because we are all subject to what's called functional fixedness or fixedness.
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His dark eyes bored into me with a fixedness of supreme despair or suffering.
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And they all have to do with, you know, as I say, breaking these fixednesses that you were just alluding to.
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This perceived fixedness and acceptance of linguistic boundaries in popular discourse make language a different kind of social signifier than race.
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On the contrary, it is an affirmation of the will to power, to uphold one's truth beyond "fixedness and rationality" (234).
Academic text (1999) -
James contrasts the free-spirited young heroine who uses the hotel as a fluid setting for fleeting meetings and casual conversation with the fixedness of codes that Winterbourne, Mrs. Costello, and Mrs. Walker try to impose on her.
Academic text (2018) -
In Memoirs of Hadrian, Yourcenar seeks to expand the modern heroic imagination, an imagination that in contemporary fiction often finds itself reduced to contemplating its own corporeal fixedness and the absurdity of existence.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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3.1
Being steady and not likely to change
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3.6
The state of being calm and not changing under pressure
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9.0
Something that stays the same while other things change
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3.0
Being steady and held in one place without moving
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8.5
A state of not changing over time
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8.6
A state in which something does not move or change
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8.4
Firm and stable quality that keeps something from moving or breaking
A state of not changing over time
A state in which something like a rule cannot change
The quality of not changing over time
A state of staying the same over time without becoming different
The quality of staying the same over time
A state when something stays the same over time
A state in which something stays the same
A person or thing that stays firm and steady and does not change easily
How firmly something is fixed in place
A state where rules keep prices or policies from changing
Antonyms
How Stable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fixedness comes from the simple verb fix, which once meant 'to fasten' or 'make firm'. Think of a picture fixed to a wall: its fixedness is the quality of staying in place, stable and not changing.