fixedness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FIX'EDNESS, noun 1. A state of being fixed; stability; firmness; steadfastness; as a fixedness in religion or politics; fixedness of opinion on any subject. 2. The state of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; as the fixedness of gold. 3. Firm coherence of parts; solidity.
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