fixedness

Other forms of fixedness

plural

fixednesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fixedness

What does fixedness mean?

fixedness means "remaining in place". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fixedness?

fixedness has 3 syllables: fix-ed-ness. The stress falls on "fix".

What is another word for fixedness?

Close synonyms include stationariness, immobility, fastness, fixity, fixture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fixedness?

The recorded antonyms are looseness.

Is fixedness a common word?

fixedness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.